^{3 Ref} Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

^{4 Ref} he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

^{5 Ref} Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

^{6 Ref} Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

^{7 Ref} For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.

^{8 Ref} Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nothing by the brightness of his coming;