2 Thessalonians 2:4-10

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⁴ He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God.^{(A) 5} Do you not remember that I told you these things when I was still with you? ⁶ And you know what is now restraining him, so that he may be revealed when his time comes. ⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but only until the one who now restrains it is removed.^{(B) 8} And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus^[a] will destroy^[b] with the breath of his mouth, annihilating him by the manifestation of his coming.^{(C) 9} The coming of the lawless one is apparent in the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders,^{(D) 10} and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.^(E)