3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy  * 2:3 Or rebellion comes first and the man of lawlessness  * 2:3 Other mss read man of sin is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god  * 2:4 1Co 8:5 or object of worship,  * 2:4 Is 14:12–15; Ezk 28:2; Ac 17:23 so that he sits  * 2:4 Other mss add as God in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.