2 Thessalonians 2:1

Now we ask you, brothers, on behalf of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him,

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Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

In Context

2for ye not to be quickly shaken from your mind, nor to be alarmed, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by a letter as by us, as that the day of the Christ has come.

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Cross References

Genesis 49:10The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and to him shall the obedience of the peoples be.

Matthew 25:32And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from each other, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

Romans 12:1I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your reasonable service.

1 Thessalonians 2:19For what is our hope or joy or crown of boast? Or is it not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

1 Thessalonians 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him.

Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 2:1

The apostle is very careful to hinder the spreading of an error into which some among them had fallen concerning the coming of Christ, as being very near, ver. 1-3 . Then he proceeds to confute the error he cautioned them against, by telling them of two great events that were antecedent to the coming of Christ—a general apostasy, and the revelation of antichrist, concerning whom the apostle tells them many remarkable things, about his name, his character, his rise, his fall, his reign, and the sin and ruin of his… Read the whole commentary →

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