2 Thessalonians 2:2–9

²to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand; ³let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, ⁴he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God. ⁵Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? ⁶And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. ⁷For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. ⁸And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming; ⁹even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,