2 Thessalonians 2:1-17.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-17 (GNT)
1Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered
together to be with him: I beg you, my friends, 2not to be so easily
confused in your thinking or upset by the claim that the Day of the Lord
has come. Perhaps it is thought that we said this while prophesying or
preaching, or that we wrote it in a letter. 3Do not let anyone deceive you
in any way. For the Day will not come until the final Rebellion takes place
and the Wicked One appears, who is destined to hell. 4He will oppose every
so-called god or object of worship and will put himself above them all. He
will even go in and sit down in God's Temple and claim to be God. 5Don't
you remember? I told you all this while I was with you. 6Yet there is
something that keeps this from happening now, and you know what it is. At
the proper time, then, the Wicked One will appear. 7The Mysterious
Wickedness is already at work, but what is going to happen will not happen
until the one who holds it back is taken out of the way. 8Then the Wicked
One will be revealed, but when the Lord Jesus comes, he will kill him with
the breath from his mouth and destroy him with his dazzling presence. 9The
Wicked One will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of
false miracles and wonders, 10and use every kind of wicked deceit on those
who will perish. They will perish because they did not welcome and love the
truth so as to be saved. 11And so God sends the power of error to work in
them so that they believe what is false. 12The result is that all who have
not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in sin, will be condemned.
13We must thank God at all times for you, friends, you whom the Lord
loves. For God chose you as the first to be saved by the Spirit's power to
make you his holy people and by your faith in the truth. 14God called you
to this through the Good News we preached to you; he called you to possess
your share of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15So then, our friends,
stand firm and hold on to those truths which we taught you, both in our
preaching and in our letter. 16May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God
our Father, who loved us and in his grace gave us unfailing courage and a
firm hope, 17encourage you and strengthen you to always do and say what is
good.
God bless you.
1Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered
together to be with him: I beg you, my friends, 2not to be so easily
confused in your thinking or upset by the claim that the Day of the Lord
has come. Perhaps it is thought that we said this while prophesying or
preaching, or that we wrote it in a letter. 3Do not let anyone deceive you
in any way. For the Day will not come until the final Rebellion takes place
and the Wicked One appears, who is destined to hell. 4He will oppose every
so-called god or object of worship and will put himself above them all. He
will even go in and sit down in God's Temple and claim to be God. 5Don't
you remember? I told you all this while I was with you. 6Yet there is
something that keeps this from happening now, and you know what it is. At
the proper time, then, the Wicked One will appear. 7The Mysterious
Wickedness is already at work, but what is going to happen will not happen
until the one who holds it back is taken out of the way. 8Then the Wicked
One will be revealed, but when the Lord Jesus comes, he will kill him with
the breath from his mouth and destroy him with his dazzling presence. 9The
Wicked One will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of
false miracles and wonders, 10and use every kind of wicked deceit on those
who will perish. They will perish because they did not welcome and love the
truth so as to be saved. 11And so God sends the power of error to work in
them so that they believe what is false. 12The result is that all who have
not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in sin, will be condemned.
13We must thank God at all times for you, friends, you whom the Lord
loves. For God chose you as the first to be saved by the Spirit's power to
make you his holy people and by your faith in the truth. 14God called you
to this through the Good News we preached to you; he called you to possess
your share of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15So then, our friends,
stand firm and hold on to those truths which we taught you, both in our
preaching and in our letter. 16May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God
our Father, who loved us and in his grace gave us unfailing courage and a
firm hope, 17encourage you and strengthen you to always do and say what is
good.
God bless you.
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