2 Thessalonians 2:6 ASV

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;