Ephesians 5:6
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Duty to Live in the Light. 6 (A)Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient.[a]
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2 Thessalonians 2:3
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3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For unless the apostasy comes first and the lawless one is revealed,[a] the one doomed to perdition,
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- 2:3b–5 This incomplete sentence (anacoluthon, 2 Thes 2:4) recalls what the Thessalonians had already been taught, an apocalyptic scenario depicting, in terms borrowed especially from Dn 11:36–37 and related verses, human self-assertiveness against God in the temple of God itself. The lawless one represents the climax of such activity in this account.
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