2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only there is one who is hindering and will continue to hinder till he be removed;
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6And now you know what is holding him back, to the end that he may be revealed in his appointed time.
Cross References
Colossians 2:18Let no man at his will defraud you of your prize through his false humility and worship of the angels, taking his stand on the visions he has seen, and vainly puffed up by his material mind;
2 Timothy 2:17and their teaching will spread like a gangrene.
1 John 4:3and every spirit which confesses him not, is not from God. And this is that spirit of Antichrist of which you have heard that it is coming, and that now it is already in the world.
Revelation 17:7And the angel said to me. "Why did you wonder? I will explain to you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with the seven heads and ten horns, that carried her.
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 →