2 Thessalonians 2:7
For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now letteth , until he be taken out of the way.
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Context
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now letteth , until he be taken out of the way.
8 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:
9 , whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,