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The Man of Sin
Now we beg you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him,
Now we beg you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him,
that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as [if it were] by us, as that the day of the Lord is present.
Don’t be so easily shaken or alarmed by those who say that the day of the Lord has already begun. Don’t believe them, even if they claim to have had a spiritual vision, a revelation, or a letter supposedly from us.
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;
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.
He will exalt himself and defy everything that people call god and every object of worship. He will even sit in the temple of God, claiming that he himself is God.
Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, I said these things to you?
Don’t you remember that I told you about all this when I was with you?
And now ye know that which restrains, that he should be revealed in his own time.
And you know what is holding him back, for he can be revealed only when his time comes.
For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only [there is] he who restrains now until he be gone,
For this lawlessness is already at work secretly, and it will remain secret until the one who is holding it back steps out of the way.
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;
Then the man of lawlessness will be revealed, but the Lord Jesus will slay him with the breath of his mouth and destroy him by the splendor of his coming.
whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
This man will come to do the work of Satan with counterfeit power and signs and miracles.
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.
He will use every kind of evil deception to fool those on their way to destruction, because they refuse to love and accept the truth that would save them.
And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false,
So God will cause them to be greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies.
that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.
Then they will be condemned for enjoying evil rather than believing the truth.
Stand Firm
But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of [the] Lord, that God has chosen you from [the] beginning to salvation in sanctification of [the] Spirit and belief of [the] truth:
But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of [the] Lord, that God has chosen you from [the] beginning to salvation in sanctification of [the] Spirit and belief of [the] truth:
Believers Should Stand Firm
As for us, we can’t help but thank God for you, dear brothers and sisters loved by the Lord. We are always thankful that God chose you to be among the firstd to experience salvation — a salvation that came through the Spirit who makes you holy and through your belief in the truth.
whereto he has called you by our glad tidings, to [the] obtaining of [the] glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He called you to salvation when we told you the Good News; now you can share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the instructions which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.
With all these things in mind, dear brothers and sisters, stand firm and keep a strong grip on the teaching we passed on to you both in person and by letter.
But our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us, and given [us] eternal consolation and good hope by grace,
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and a wonderful hope,