3. Let no one deceive you in any way, because the falling away is to come first, and the man of lawlessness is to be revealed, the son of destruction,
4. who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called Elohim or that is worshipped, so that he sits as Elohim in the Dwelling Place of Elohim, showing himself that he is Elohim.
5. Do you not remember that I told you this while I was still with you?
6. And now you know what restrains, for him to be revealed in his time.
7. For the secret of lawlessness is already at work – only until he who now restrains comes out of the midst.
8. And then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Master shall consume with the Spirit of His mouth and bring to naught with the manifestation of His coming.
9. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
10. and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth, in order for them to be saved.
11. And for this reason Elohim sends them a working of delusion, for them to believe the falsehood,
12. in order that all should be judged who did not believe the truth, but have delighted in the unrighteousness.
13. But we ought to give thanks to Elohim always for you, brothers, beloved by the Master, because Elohim from the beginning chose you to be saved – in set-apartness of Spirit, and belief in the truth –