2 Thessalonians 2:8
and 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;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only [there is] he who restrains now until he be gone,
9whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
Cross References
Job 4:9By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his nostrils are they consumed.
Isaiah 11:4but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Daniel 7:26And the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
Matthew 13:19From every one who hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand [it], the wicked one comes and catches away what was sown in his heart: this is he that is sown by the wayside.
2 Thessalonians 1:8in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know not God, and those who do not obey the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ;
1 Timothy 6:14that thou keep the commandment spotless, irreproachable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;
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 →