2 Thessalonians 2

CLV^{(i) 1} Now we are asking you, brethren, for the sake of the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling to Him, ² that you be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be alarmed, either through spirit, or through word, or through an epistle as through us, as that the day of the Lord is present." ³ No one should be deluding you by any method, for, should not the apostasy be coming first and the man of lawlessness be unveiled, the son of destruction, ⁴ who is opposing and lifting himself up over everyone termed a god or an object of veneration, so that he is seated in the temple of God, demonstrating that he himself is God? ⁵ Do you not remember that, still being with you, I told you these things? ⁶ And now you are aware what is detaining, for him to be unveiled in his own era." ⁷ For the secret of lawlessness is already operating. Only when the present detainer may be coming to be out of the midst, ⁸ then will be unveiled the lawless one (whom the Lord Jesus will despatch with the spirit of His mouth and will discard by the advent of His presence), ⁹ whose presence is in accord with the operation of Satan, with all power and signs and false miracles" ¹⁰ and with every seduction of injustice among those who are perishing, because they do not receive the love of the truth for their salvation." ¹¹ And therefore God will be sending them an operation of deception, for them to believe the falsehood, ¹² that all may be judged who do not believe the truth, but delight in injustice." ¹³ Now we ought to be thanking God always concerning you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, seeing that God prefers you from the beginning for salvation, in holiness of the spirit and faith in the truth, ¹⁴ into which He also calls us through our evangel, for the procuring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." ¹⁵ Consequently, then, brethren, stand firm, and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, whether through word or our epistle." ¹⁶ Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, our Father, Who loves us, and is giving us an eonian consolation and a good expectation in grace, ¹⁷ be consoling your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.