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Christian Standard Bible ®

2 Thessalonians 2:5

Don't you remember that when I was still with you I told you about this?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Antichrist;   Jesus Continued;   Scofield Reference Index - Apostasy;   Beast (the);   Day (of Jehovah);   The Topic Concordance - Antichrist;   Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Day of the lord;   Millennium;   Providence;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Second Coming of Christ;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Antichrist;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Man of Sin;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Antichrist;   Daniel, the Book of;   Thessalonians, the Epistles to the;   Zechariah, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Antichrist;   Apocrypha, New Testament;   Time, Meaning of;   2 Thessalonians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abomination of Desolation;   Antichrist;   Kingdom of God;   Man of Sin;   Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abomination of Desolation ;   Antichrist ;   Apocalypse;   Apocalyptic Literature;   Ascension of Isaiah;   Brotherly Love;   Eschatology;   Kingdom Kingdom of God;   Man of Sin;   Restoration;   Sin (2);   Temple (2);   Thessalonians Epistles to the;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Antichrist;   Prophets, the;   Revelation, the;   Time, Times;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Thessalonians;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Man of Sin;   Millennium: Premillennial View;   Thessalonians, the Second Epistle of Paul to the;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abomination of Desolation;   Antichrist;  

Parallel Translations

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?
Legacy Standard Bible
Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?
Simplified Cowboy Version
But none of this is anything I haven't already told you.
Bible in Basic English
Have you no memory of what I said when I was with you, giving you word of these things?
Darby Translation
Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, I said these things to you?
World English Bible
Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Remember ye not, that I told you these things, when I was yet with you?
Weymouth's New Testament
Do you not remember that while I was still with you I used to tell you all this?
King James Version (1611)
Remember yee not, that when I was yet with you, I tolde you these things?
Literal Translation
Do you not remember that I told you these things, I yet being with you?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Remembre ye not, that whan I was yet with you, I tolde you these thinges?
Mace New Testament (1729)
don't you remember, I told you this, when I was with you?
THE MESSAGE
The Anarchist Now, friends, read these next words carefully. Slow down and don't go jumping to conclusions regarding the day when our Master, Jesus Christ, will come back and we assemble to welcome him. Don't let anyone shake you up or get you excited over some breathless report or rumored letter from me that the day of the Master's arrival has come and gone. Don't fall for any line like that. Before that day comes, a couple of things have to happen. First, the Apostasy. Second, the debut of the Anarchist, a real dog of Satan. He'll defy and then take over every so-called god or altar. Having cleared away the opposition, he'll then set himself up in God's Temple as "God Almighty." Don't you remember me going over all this in detail when I was with you? Are your memories that short?
Amplified Bible
Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I was telling you these things?
American Standard Version
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
Revised Standard Version
Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you this?
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Remember ye not that when I was yet with you I tolde you these thynges?
Update Bible Version
Do you not remember, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
Webster's Bible Translation
Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
Young's Literal Translation
Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, these things I said to you?
New Century Version
I told you when I was with you that all this would happen. Do you not remember?
New English Translation
Surely you recall that I used to tell you these things while I was still with you.
Berean Standard Bible
Do you not remember that I told you these things while I was still with you?
Contemporary English Version
Don't you remember that I told you this while I was still with you?
Complete Jewish Bible
Don't you remember that when I was still with you, I used to tell you these things?
English Standard Version
Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I tolde you these things?
George Lamsa Translation
Do you not remember, that when I was with you I told you these things?
Hebrew Names Version
Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?
International Standard Version
Don't you remember that I repeatedly told you about these things when I was still with you?
Etheridge Translation
Do you not remember, that, when I was with you, these I told you?
Murdock Translation
Do ye not remember, that, when I was with you, I told you these things?
New King James Version
Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
New Living Translation
Don't you remember that I told you about all this when I was with you?
New Life Bible
Do you not remember that while I was with you, I told you this?
English Revised Version
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
New Revised Standard
Do you not remember that I told you these things when I was still with you?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Remember ye not, that, while I was yet with you, these very things, I was telling you?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember you not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
King James Version
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
Lexham English Bible
Do you not remember that while we were still with you, we were saying these things to you?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I tolde you these thynges?
Easy-to-Read Version
I told you before that all these things would happen. Remember?
New American Standard Bible
Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?
Good News Translation
Don't you remember? I told you all this while I was with you.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether ye holden not, that yit whanne Y was at you, Y seide these thingis to you?

Contextual Overview

3 Don't let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction. 4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God's sanctuary, publicizing that he himself is God. 5 Don't you remember that when I was still with you I told you about this? 6 And you know what currently restrains him, so that he will be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one now restraining will do so until he is out of the way, 8 and then the lawless one will be revealed. The Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of His mouth and will bring him to nothing with the brightness of His coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is based on Satan's working, with all kinds of false miracles, signs, and wonders, 10 and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a strong delusion so that they will believe what is false, 12 so that all will be condemned—those who did not believe the truth but enjoyed unrighteousness.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Remember: Matthew 16:9, Mark 8:18, Luke 24:6, Luke 24:7, Acts 20:31

when: 2 Thessalonians 3:10, John 16:4, Galatians 5:21, 1 Thessalonians 2:11, 2 Peter 1:15

Cross-References

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 2:12
Gold from that land is pure; bdellium and onyx are also there.
Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 4:2
Then she also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground.
Genesis 4:12
If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth."
Job 5:10
He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.
Psalms 104:14
He causes grass to grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, producing food from the earth,
Psalms 135:7
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings the wind from His storehouses.
Jeremiah 14:22
Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Or can the skies alone give showers? Are You not the Lord our God? We therefore put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you,.... At Thessalonica, for the apostle had been there in person, and had preached there with great boldness and success; he had declared the whole counsel of God, and the Gospel came in power and worked effectually in them, and yet there was too great a forgetfulness of it; with which the apostle tacitly charges them, and rebukes them gently for it; and as a faithful monitor, stirs up their pure minds by way of remembrance, and reminds them of former truths delivered to them:

I told you these things: or "words" as the Arabic version; concerning the coming of Christ as that it would not be yet, that there, must be a defection from the faith, and antichrist must be revealed; which shows that these were things of moment and importance, and were useful and profitable to be insisted on; and therefore the apostle had told them of them, and spoke freely and largely about them, at his first preaching among them, and were what he inculcated everywhere; and also that his doctrine was all of a piece at one time as another; it was not yea and nay, or contradictory; what he now said was no other than what he had said before; and therefore it was the more inexcusable in them, to be shaken or troubled by any means with another doctrine.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? - The whole subject of the second coming of the Saviour seems to have constituted an important part of the instructions of Paul when at Thessalonica. He now refers them to what he had told them respecting the great apostasy, to show that his views had not changed, and that he did not mean to have them understand that the world would soon come to an end. He had stated these things to them implying that a considerable interval must elapse before the Saviour would appear. Much of the obscurity of this prophecy arises from the fact, that the apostle alludes to things which he had told them when with them, of which we have now no knowledge. Hence, what would be perfectly clear to them, on reading this letter, is now difficult to be understood.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 5. I told you these things — In several parts of this description of the man of sin, the apostle alludes to a conversation which had taken place between him and the members of this Church when he was at Thessalonica; and this one circumstance will account for much of the obscurity that is in these verses. Besides, the apostle appears to speak with great caution, and does not at all wish to publish what he had communicated to them; the hints which he drops were sufficient to call the whole to their remembrance.


 
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