2 Thessalonians 2

Now about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering to him, we ask you, brothers,

for you not to be quickly shaken in your mind and not to be troubled neither by a spirit nor by a word nor by a letter as if from us, as if the day of the Lord has already come. \*

May no one deceive you in any way, for unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

the one opposing and exalting himself against everything being called god or an object of worship. As a result, he himself sits in the temple of God, showing that he himself is God. \*

Do you not remember that, still being with you, I was telling you these things?

And now you know the one restraining {him}, until his revealing in his time.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only the one restraining {him} now will do so until he comes out of the way, \*

and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth, and will bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming,

the arrival of whom is according to a work of Satan in all power and signs and false wonders

and in all deceit of unrighteousness to the ones perishing, because of which they did not receive the love of the truth for them to be saved. \*

And because of this, God is sending to them a working of error for them to believe the lie

so that they might all be judged, the ones not having believed the truth, but having taken pleasure in the unrighteousness. \*

Now we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers having been loved by the Lord. For God chose you {as} firstfruits for salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth.

He called you to this through our gospel, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold tight to the traditions that you were taught, whether by word or by our letter. \*

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave {us} eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

may he comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word. \*