2 Thessalonians 2:7

For the mystery of lawlessness is already working; only there is one who now restraineth, until he be taken out of the way;

Noyes Bible

In The King James Version

For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

In Context

6And now ye know what restraineth, in order that he may be revealed in his own time.

8and then will the lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will consume with the breath of his mouth, and destroy with the manifestation of his coming;

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Cross References

Colossians 2:18Let no one defraud you of the prize, desiring to do it in humiliation and worshipping of the angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, puffed up without reason by the mind of his own flesh,

2 Timothy 2:17and their word will eat as doth a canker; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

1 John 4:3And every spirit that doth not acknowledge Jesus, is not of God; and this is that spirit of Antichrist, of which ye have heard that it is to come, and even now it is already in the world.

Revelation 17:7And the angel said to me, Wherefore didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads, and the ten horns.

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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