1 Now, brethren, ^aconcerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ ^band our gathering together to Him, we ask you,  ‡

2 ^anot to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of¹ Christ had come.  ‡

3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come ^aunless the falling away comes first, and ^bthe man of sin is revealed, ^cthe son of perdition,  ‡