^{3 Ref} Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

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

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

^{6 Ref} And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

^{7 Ref} For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.