2 Thessalonians 2:6

2:6 And so ¹  you know what holds him back, ²  so that he will be revealed in his own time.

2 Thessalonians 3:7

3:7 For you know yourselves how you must imitate us, because we did not behave without discipline ³  among you,

2 Thessalonians 1:8

1:8 With flaming fire he will mete out ⁴  punishment on those who do not know God ⁵  and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

¹ tn Grk “and now,” but this shows the logical result of his previous teaching.

² tn Grk “the thing that restrains.”

³ tn This is the verbal form of the words occurring in vv. 6 and 11, meaning “to act out of line, in an unruly way.”

⁵ tn Grk “meting out,” as a description of Jesus Christ in v. 7. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started at the beginning of v. 8 in the translation.

⁶ sn An allusion to Jer 10:25, possibly also to Ps 79:6 and Isa 66:15.