2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work: only he who now restrains it will do so, until he is taken out of the way.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6And you know what restrains him now, that he might be revealed in his time.
Cross References
Colossians 2:18Let no man defraud you of your reward, delighting in self-abasement and the worship of angels, taking his stand on visions, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
2 Timothy 2:17And their word will spread like gangrene. Among these are Hymenaeus and Philetus;
1 John 4:3And every spirit that does not confess Jesus, is not of God: this is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it was coming; and now is already in the world.
Revelation 17:7And the angel said to me, Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the 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 →