2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the mystery of iniquity is already powerfully working; only he that withholdeth hitherto, will do so till he is removed.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6And now ye know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his own time.
Cross References
Colossians 2:18Let no man juggle you out of your prize, voluntary in his humility and the worship of angels, intruding into things which he never saw, vainly puffed up by his carnal imagination;
2 Timothy 2:17And their discourse will eat like as a gangrene; of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus;
1 John 4:3And every spirit who confesseth not that Jesus the Messiah is come into the world, is not from God: and this is that spirit of antichrist which ye have heard that it is coming, and now is already in the world.
Revelation 17:7And the angel said unto me, Wherefore dost thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast which carrieth her, which hath seven heads and 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 →