2 Thessalonians 2:6
And now ye know that which restrains, that he should be revealed in his own time.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
In Context
5Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, I said these things to you?
7For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only [there is] he who restrains now until he be gone,
Cross References
2 Thessalonians 2:8and then the lawless one shall be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus shall consume with the breath of his mouth, and shall annul by the appearing of his coming;
Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 2:2-13
Cautions against False Alarm. ( a. d. 52.) 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means— From these words it appears that some among the Thessalonians had mistaken the apostle's meaning, in what he had written in his former epistle about the coming of Christ, by… Read the whole commentary →