for your acceptance.
001:011 It is with this view also that we continually pray to our God
for you, asking that He will count you worthy of His call,
and by His mighty power fully gratify your every desire
for what is truly good and make your work of faith complete;
001:012 in order that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you,
and that you may be glorified in Him--so wonderful is the grace
of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ!
002:001 But with respect to the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our
being gathered to meet Him, we entreat you, brethren,
002:002 not readily to become unsettled in mind or troubled--
either by any pretended spiritual revelation or by any message
or letter claiming to have been sent by us--through fancying
that the day of the Lord is now here.
002:003 Let no one in any way deceive you, for that day cannot come
without the coming of the apostasy first, and the appearing
of the man of sin, the son of perdition, who sets himself against,
002:004 and exalts himself above, every so-called `god' or object of worship,
and goes the length of taking his seat in the very temple of God,
giving it out that he himself is God.
002:005 Do you not remember that while I was still with you I used
to tell you all this?
002:006 And now you know what restrains him, in order that his true
character may be revealed at his appointed time.
002:007 For lawlessness is already at work in secret; but only until
the man who is now exercising a restraining influence is removed,
002:008 and then the Lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus
will sweep away with the tempest of His anger, and utterly
overwhelm by the awful splendour of His Coming.
002:009 The appearing of the Lawless one will be attended by various