2 Thessalonians 2:4-8 who opposes and exalts himself against every one called a god, or an object of worship; so that he places himself in the temple of God, openly exhibiting himself, that he is a god.

Living_Oracles⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ who opposes and exalts himself against every one called a god, or an object of worship; so that he places himself in the temple of God, openly exhibiting himself, that he is a god. ⁵ Do you not remember that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? ⁶ And you know what now prevents his being revealed until his proper time. ⁷ For already the mystery of iniquity secretly works, only till he who now restrains, be taken out of the way; ⁸ and then shall that lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will consume by the spirit of his mouth-with the brightness of his coming,