2 Thessalonians 2:6

And you know now what the restraining influence is which prevents his appearing before his appointed time.

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Do not you remember how, when I was with you, I used to speak to you of all this?

7Wickedness, indeed, is already at work in secret; but only until he who at present restrains it is removed out of the way.

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Cross References

2 Thessalonians 2:8Then will ‘Wickedness Incarnate’ appear, but the Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his lips, and annihilate him by the splendour of his Coming.

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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