2 Thessalonians 2:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but only until the one who now restrains it is removed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For the mystery of lawlessness (that hidden principle of rebellion against constituted authority) is already at work in the world, [but it is] restrained only until he who restrains is taken out of the way.

American Standard Version (1901)

For the mystery of lawlessness doth already work: only there is one that restraineth now, until he be taken out of the way.

Common English Bible

The hidden plan to live without any law is at work now, but it will be secret only until the one who is holding it back is out of the way.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For the mystery of iniquity is already at work. And only one now holds back, and will continue to hold back, until he is taken from our midst.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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 2:7 Cross References

Acts 20:29

I know that after I have gone, savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.

2 Thessalonians 2:6

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

1 Timothy 3:16

Without any doubt, the mystery of godliness is great: He was revealed in flesh, vindicated in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among gentiles, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory.

1 John 2:18

Children, it is the last hour! As you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. From this we know that it is the last hour.

1 John 4:3

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.

Revelation 17:5

and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of whores and of earth’s abominations.”

Revelation 17:7

But the angel said to me, “Why are you so amazed? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.