2 Thessalonians 2:6

And now all of you know what withholds that he might be revealed in his time.

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Remember all of you not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

7For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now lets will let, until he be taken out of the way.

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Cross References

2 Thessalonians 2:8And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit (o. pneuma) of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness 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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