2 Thessalonians 2:3-12

Darby Translation

³ Let 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;

⁴ who 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.

⁵ Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, I said these things to you?

⁶ And now ye know that which restrains, that he should be revealed in his own time.

⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only [there is] he who restrains now until he be gone,

⁸ and 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;

⁹ whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,

¹⁰ and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved.

¹¹ And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false,

¹² that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.