³Let not any one deceive you in any manner, because it will not be unless the apostasy have first come, and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition; ⁴who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. ⁵Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, I said these things to you? ⁶And now ye know that which restrains, that he should be revealed in his own time. ⁷For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only there is he who restrains now until he be gone, ⁸and then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus shall consume with the breath of his mouth, and shall annul by the appearing of his coming; ⁹whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood, ¹⁰and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved. ¹¹And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false, ¹²that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.

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