1 弟兄们， 关于我们主耶稣基督的再来， 和我们到他那里聚集的事， 我们求你们：
2 无论有灵、有话、有冒我们的名的书信， 说主的日子现在到了， 你们都不要轻易动心， 也不要惊慌。
3 不要让人用任何方法迷惑了你们， 因为主的日子来到以前， 必定有背道的事， 并且那不法的人， 就是那沉沦之子， 必定显露出来。
4 他抵挡 神， 抬举自己， 高过一切称为神和受人敬拜的， 甚至坐在 神的殿中， 自称为 神。
5 我还在你们那里的时候， 曾经把这些事告诉你们， 你们不记得吗？
6 现在你们也知道， 那箝制他， 使他到了时候才可以显露出来的是什么。
7 因为那不法的潜力已经发动， 只是现在有一个箝制他的在那里， 直等到那箝制解除了，
8 那时， 这不法的人必要显露出来。主耶稣要用自己口中的气除掉他， 以自己再来所显现的光辉消灭他。
9 这不法的人来到， 是照着撒但的行动， 行各样的异能奇迹和荒诞的事，
10 并且在那些沉沦的人身上， 行各样不义的欺诈， 因为他们不领受爱真理的心， 使他们得救。
11 因此， 神就使错谬的思想运行在他们当中， 让他们相信虚谎，
12 叫所有不信真理倒喜爱不义的人， 都被定罪。
13 主所爱的弟兄们， 我们应该常常为你们感谢 神， 因为他从起初就拣选了你们， 借着圣灵成圣的工作， 和你们对真道的信心， 使你们可以得救。
14 因此， 神借着我们所传的福音呼召你们， 使你们得着我们主耶稣基督的荣耀。
15 所以弟兄们， 你们要站立得稳； 你们所领受的教训， 无论是我们口传的， 或是信上写的， 都要持守。
16 愿我们的主耶稣基督自己， 和那爱我们、开恩把永远的安慰和美好的盼望赐给我们的父 神，
17 安慰你们的心， 并且在一切善行善言上， 坚定你们。
1 Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him; 2 to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand; 3 let no man beguile you in any wise: for it will not be, except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, 4 he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming; 9 even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: 12 that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 14 whereunto he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.
16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, 17 comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.