2 Thessalonians 2:6

And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

In Context

5Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

7For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only [there is] one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way.

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Cross References

2 Thessalonians 2:8And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation 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 →

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