⁴Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.

⁵Remember you not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

⁶And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time.

⁷For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now holdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way.

⁸And then that wicked one shall be revealed: whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: him

⁹Whose coming is according to the working of Satan, in all power and signs and lying wonders:

¹⁰And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:

¹¹That all may be judged who have not believed the truth but have consented to iniquity.

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