◄ 2 Thessalonians 2:6 ►
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Good News Translation
Yet there is something that keeps this from happening now, and you know what it is. At the proper time, then, the Wicked One will appear.

New Revised Standard Version
And you know what is now restraining him, so that he may be revealed when his time comes.

Contemporary English Version
You already know what is holding this wicked one back until it is time for him to come.

New American Bible
And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his time.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time.

withholdeth.

2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now holdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way.

revealed.

2 Thessalonians 2:3,8 Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition . . .

Context
The Man of Lawlessness
…5Remember you not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time. 7For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now holdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way.…
Cross References
Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and injustice of those men that detain the truth of God in injustice:

2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now holdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way.

2 Thessalonians 2:5
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