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[a] will do so until he is out of the way,[b] and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of his mouth, and wipe out by the appearance of his coming,

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Footnotes

  1. 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)
  2. 2 Thessalonians 2:7 Literally “out of the midst”