2 Thessalonians 2:6

And, what now restraineth, ye know, to the end he may be revealed in his own fitting time;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Remember ye not, that, while I was yet with you, these very things, I was telling you?

7For, the secret, of lawlessness, already, is inwardly working itself,—only, until, he that restraineth at present, shall be gone, out of the midst:

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Cross References

2 Thessalonians 2:8And, then, shall be revealed the lawless one,—whom, the Lord [Jesus], will slay with the Spirit of his mouth, and paralyse with the forthshining of his Presence:—

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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