 1 Now we urge you, family+, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering to Him, 2 that you not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, not by spirit or by word or by letter as from us, regarding the fact that the day of Christ is very near+. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means. For that day will not come until+ there first come a falling away, and the man of sin, the son of damnation+, becomes revealed. 4 That man will oppose God and exalt himself above all that is called God or is worshiped as God, so that he sits in the temple of God, showing~ himself in a pretense that he is God. 5 Do you not remember that I told you about these things while I was still+ with you? 6 And now you know what it is that is holding+ back for that man to be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery~ of iniquity is already working. It is only being restrained+ now until the restraint is taken out of the way. 8 Then that wicked one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath+ of His mouth and nullify+ with the brightness of His coming. 9 That wicked one whose coming is according+ to the work of Satan with all power and signs and false+ wonders 10 and with every unrighteous deceit in those who perish because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved. 11 Because+ of this, God will send a strong~ delusion upon them for+ believing a lie 12 so that all who did not believe the truth but took pleasure~ in unrighteousness might be damned~. 13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, family+, beloved of the Lord. Because from the beginning, God has chosen you to receive salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. 14 To this, He called you through our proclaiming of the Gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 Therefore family+: Stand fast and hold the traditions you have been taught, whether by Word or by our epistle. 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace 17 comfort your hearts and strengthen+ you in every good word and work.
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