2:1  
    [kjv]  Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
    [bbe]  Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers,
2:2
    [kjv]  That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
    [bbe]  That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;
2:3
    [kjv]  Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
    [bbe]  Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,
2:4  
    [kjv]  Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
    [bbe]  Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.
2:5  
    [kjv]  Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
    [bbe]  Have you no memory of what I said when I was with you, giving you word of these things?
2:6
    [kjv]  And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
    [bbe]  And now it is clear to you what is keeping back his revelation till the time comes for him to be seen.
2:7  
    [kjv]  For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
    [bbe]  For the secret of evil is even now at work: but there is one who is keeping back the evil till he is taken out of the way.
2:8
    [kjv]  And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
    [bbe]  And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;
2:9  
    [kjv]  Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying w............