³ Don’t let anyone deceive you^(A) in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion^(B) occurs and the man of lawlessness^[a] is revealed,^(C) the man doomed to destruction.

⁴ You who are trying to be justified by the law^(A) have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.^(B)

¹⁸ They said to you, “In the last times^(A) there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”^{(B) 19} These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.^(C)