2 Thessalonians 2:7

For the mystery of iniquity already beginneth to be effective; only if that which now holdeth be taken from the midst,

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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 you know what holdeth, that he may be revealed in his time.

8then will be revealed that evil one, whom our Lord Jeshu will consume by the spirit of his mouth, and will abolish by the revelation of his advent.

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Cross References

Colossians 2:18And lest any man wish by abasement of mind to fetter you to be subject to the worship of angels, intruding upon that which he hath not seen, and vainly inflated in his fleshly mind;

2 Timothy 2:17And their words as an eating cancer will lay hold upon many: but one of them is Hymeneos, and another Philetos,

1 John 4:3And every spirit who confesseth not that Jeshu hath come in the flesh, is not from Aloha: but this is from that false meshiha, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and now is in the world already.

Revelation 17:7And the angel said to me, Why wonderest thou? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast of prey which beareth 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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