For many
shall come in my name,
saying,
I am Christ;
and shall deceive many.
Then if any man
shall say
unto you,
Lo,
here is Christ,
or there;
believe it not.
For there shall arise false Christs,
and false prophets,
and shall shew great signs
and wonders;
insomuch that,
if it
were possible,
they shall deceive
the very elect.
Wherefore
if they
shall say
unto you,
Behold,
he is in the desert;
go not forth:
behold,
he is in the secret chambers;
believe it not.
For many
shall come in my name,
saying,
I am Christ;
and shall deceive many.
And
then if any man
shall say to you,
Lo,
here is Christ;
or,
lo,
he is there;
believe him not:
For false Christs
and false prophets
shall rise,
and shall shew
signs
and wonders,
to seduce,
if it
were possible,
even the elect.
And he said,
Take heed that
ye be not deceived:
for many
shall come in my name,
saying,
I am Christ;
and the time
draweth near:
go ye not
therefore after them.
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;
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.
Remember ye not,
that,
when
I was yet
with you,
I told
you these things?
And now
ye know what
withholdeth
that he
might be revealed
in his time.
For the mystery
of iniquity
doth already work:
only he
who now letteth
will let,
until he
be taken
out of the way.
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:
Even him,
whose coming
is after the working
of Satan
with all power
and signs
and lying wonders,
And
with all deceivableness
of unrighteousness
in them that perish;
because
they received not
the love
of the truth,
that they
might be saved.
And
for this cause
God shall send them
strong delusion,
that they
should believe a lie:
That they
all might be damned
who believed not
the truth,
but had pleasure
in unrighteousness.
Little children,
it is the last time:
and as ye
have heard that antichrist
shall come,
even now are there
many antichrists;
whereby
we know that it
is the last time.
Who is a liar
but
he that
denieth
that Jesus is the Christ?
He is antichrist,
that denieth
the Father
and the Son.
And every spirit
that
confesseth not
that Jesus Christ
is come in
the flesh
is not of God:
and this
is that spirit
of antichrist,
whereof
ye have heard
that it
should come;
and even now already is
it in the world.
For many deceivers
are entered
into the world,
who confess not
that Jesus Christ
is come in
the flesh.
This is a deceiver
and an antichrist.
And the beast
was taken,
and with him the false prophet
that wrought miracles
before him,
with which
he deceived them
that had received
the mark
of the beast,
and them
that worshipped
his image.
These both
were cast alive
into a lake
of fire
burning with brimstone.
And the devil
that deceived them
was cast
into the lake
of fire
and brimstone,
where the beast
and the false prophet are,
and shall be tormented day and night
for ever and ever.
And whosoever
was not found
written
in the book
of life
was cast
into the lake
of fire.