6And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.


In Context

3 Don't let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.

4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God's temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

5 Don't you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things?

6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time.

7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.

8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming.

2nd Thessalonians 2:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6And now ye know that which restrains, that he should be revealed in his own time.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:6And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:6And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:6And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:6and now, what is keeping down ye have known, for his being revealed in his own time,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:6And now you know what withholds that he might be revealed in his time.