^{3 Ref} let no man beguile you in any wise: for `it will not be,' except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

^{4 Ref} he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.

^{5 Ref} Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

^{6 Ref} And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

^{7 Ref} For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only `there is' one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way.

^{8 Ref} And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming;