2 Thessalonians 2:5

Easy-to-Read Version

I told you before that all these things would happen. Remember?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t you remember that when I was still with you I used to tell you about this?

King James Version (1611)
Remember yee not, that when I was yet with you, I tolde you these things?

King James Version
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

English Standard Version
Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?

New American Standard Bible
Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?

New Century Version
I told you when I was with you that all this would happen. Do you not remember?

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?

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?

Darby Translation
Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, I said these things to you?

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?

Good News Translation
Don't you remember? I told you all this while I was with you.

Lexham English Bible
Do you not remember that while we were still with you, we were saying these things to you?

Literal Translation
Do you not remember that I told you these things, I yet being with you?

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?

Bible in Basic English
Have you no memory of what I said when I was with you, giving you word of 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?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I tolde you these thynges?

English Revised Version
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

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?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether ye holden not, that yit whanne Y was at you, Y seide these thingis to you?

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?

New English Translation
Surely you recall that I used to tell you these things while I was still with you.

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?

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?

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?

Young's Literal Translation
Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, these things I said to 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?

Simplified Cowboy Version
But none of this is anything I haven't already told you.

Contextual Overview

³ Don't be fooled by anything they might say. That day of the Lord will not come until the turning away from God happens. And that day will not come until the Man of Evil appears, the one who belongs to hell. ⁴ He will stand against and put himself above everything that people worship or think is worthy of worship. He will even go into God's Temple and sit there, claiming that he is God. ⁵ I told you before that all these things would happen. Remember? ⁶ And you know what is stopping that Man of Evil now. He is being stopped now so that he will appear at the right time. ⁷ The secret power of evil is already working in the world now. But there is one who is stopping that secret power of evil. And he will continue to stop it until he is taken out of the way. ⁸ Then that Man of Evil will appear. But the Lord Jesus will kill him with the breath that comes from his mouth. The Lord will come in a way that everyone will see, and that will be the end of the Man of Evil. ⁹ When that Man of Evil comes, it will be the work of Satan. He will come with great power, and he will do all kinds of false miracles, signs, and wonders. ¹⁰ The Man of Evil will use every kind of evil to fool those who are lost. They are lost because they refused to love the truth and be saved. ¹¹ So God will send them something powerful that leads them away from the truth and causes them to believe a lie. ¹² They will all be condemned because they did not believe the truth and because they enjoyed doing evil.

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
Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first river was Pishon. This river flowed around the entire country of Havilah.

Genesis 2:12
(There is gold in that country, and that gold is pure. A kind of expensive perfume and onyx are also found there.)

Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God forced the man out of the Garden of Eden to work the ground he was made from.

Genesis 4:2
Eve gave birth again to Cain's brother Abel. Abel became a shepherd, and Cain became a farmer.

Genesis 4:12
Now when you work the soil, the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home in this land. You will wander from place to place."

Job 5:10
He sends rain all over the earth and waters the fields.

Psalms 104:14
You make the grass grow to feed the animals. You provide plants for the crops we grow— the plants that give us food from the earth.

Psalms 135:7
He brings the clouds from the other side of the earth. He sends the lightning and the rain, and he opens the doors to release the winds.

Jeremiah 14:22
Foreign idols don't have the power to bring rain. The sky does not have the power to send down showers of rain. You, the Lord our God, are our only hope. You are the one who made 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.