King James Version
2 Thessalonians 2:5 in the King James Version says “Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?” — study this verse from 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?”
2 Thessalonians 2:5 · KJV
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. withholdeth: or, holdeth
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Remember ye”
G3421to exercise memory, i.e., recollect; by implication, to punish; also to rehearse
“with”
G4314a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e., toward (with the genitive case, the side of, i.e., pertaining to; with the dative case, by the side of,
“I told”
G3004properly, to "lay" forth, i.e., (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas g2036 and g5346 generally refer to an
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