²that you not be quickly shaken in your mind or be alarmed whether by a ^aspirit or a ^bword or a ^cletter as if from us, to the effect that ^dthe day of the Lord ^ehas come.

³^aLet no one in any way deceive you, for it has not come unless the ¹^bapostasy comes first, and the ^cman of lawlessness is revealed, the ^dson of destruction,

⁴who opposes and exalts himself above ¹^aevery so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the ²sanctuary of God, ^bexhibiting himself as being God.

⁵Do you not remember that ^awhile I was still with you, I was telling you these things?

⁶And you know ^awhat restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed.

⁷For ^athe mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only ^bhe who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.

⁸And then that lawless one ^awill be revealed—whom the Lord ¹Jesus ^bwill slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the ^cappearance of His ²coming—

⁹whose ¹coming is in accord with the working of ^aSatan, with all power and ²^bsigns and false wonders,

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Footnotes

1Or falling away from the faith
1Or everyone who is called God
2The innermost part of the temple
1Some mss omit Jesus
2Or presence
1Or presence
2Or attesting miracles

Cross references

a 1 Cor 14:32; 1 John 4:1
b 1 Thess 5:2; 2 Thess 2:15
c 2 Thess 3:17
d 1 Cor 1:8
e 1 Cor 7:26
a Eph 5:6
b 1 Tim 4:1
c Dan 7:25; 8:25; 11:36; 2 Thess 2:8; Rev 13:5ff
d John 17:12
a 1 Cor 8:5
b Is 14:14; Ezek 28:2
a 1 Thess 3:4
a 2 Thess 2:7
a Rev 17:5, 7
b 2 Thess 2:6
a Dan 7:25; 8:25; 11:36; 2 Thess 2:3; Rev 13:5ff
b Is 11:4; Rev 2:16; 19:15
c 1 Tim 6:14; 2 Tim 1:10; 4:1, 8; Titus 2:13
a Matt 4:10
b Matt 24:24; John 4:48