King James Version
2 Thessalonians 2:7 in the King James Version says “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.” — study this verse from 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.”
2 Thessalonians 2:7 · KJV
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.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
KJV Study — Public Domain
“For”
G1063properly, assigning a reason (used in argument, explanation or intensification; often with other particles)
“the mystery”
G3466a secret or "mystery" (through the idea of silence imposed by initiation into religious rites)
“letteth”
G2722to hold down (fast), in various applications (literally or figuratively)
“will let until”
G2193a conjunction, preposition and adverb of continuance, until (of time and place)
“out of”
G1537a primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or motion proceeds), from, out (of place, time, or cause literal or figurative; direct
“he be taken”
G1096to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e., (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
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