Do you not remember that while[a] we were still with you, we were saying these things to you? And you know that which restrains him now, so that he will be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is at work already; only the one who now restrains[b] will do so until he is out of the way,[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Thessalonians 2:5 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the participle (“were”) which is understood as temporal
  2. 2 Thessalonians 2:7 Or “restrains it” (referring to the “mystery of lawlessness”; or “restrains him” (referring to the “man of lawlessness” in v. 3)
  3. 2 Thessalonians 2:7 Literally “out of the midst”