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Don't let anyone deceive you in any way. For [that day] will not come unless the apostasy[a] comes first and the man of lawlessness[b] is revealed, the son of destruction.
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Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to Him: we ask you, brothers,
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not to be easily upset in mind or troubled, either by a spirit or by a message or by a letter as if from us, alleging that the Day of the Lord has come.
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Don't let anyone deceive you in any way. For [that day] will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.
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He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God's sanctuary, publicizing that he himself is God.
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Don't you remember that when I was still with you I told you about this?