2 Thessalonians 2:6

Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Don’t you remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things?

7For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.

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Cross References

2 Thessalonians 2:8Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth and destroy 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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