⁹ The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan^(A) works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders^(B) that serve the lie, ¹⁰ and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing.^(C) They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.^{(D) 11} For this reason God sends them^(E) a powerful delusion^(F) so that they will believe the lie^{(G) 12} and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.^(H)

Ask, Seek, Knock^(A)

⁷ “Ask and it will be given to you;^(B) seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

⁶ Go rather to the lost sheep of Israel.^(A)

²⁸ God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not^(A)—to nullify the things that are,

²⁹ so that no one may boast before him.^(A)

Warning to Escape Babylon’s Judgment

⁴ Then I heard another voice from heaven say: