2 Thessalonians 2:5

World English Bible

Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I told you before that all these things would happen. Remember?

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?

Hebrew Names Version
Don't you 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?

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?

English Standard Version
Do you not 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?

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

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?

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?

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?

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

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?

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?

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

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

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

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?

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

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?

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?

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

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?

Contextual Overview

³ Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, ⁴ he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God. ⁵ Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things? ⁶ Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. ⁷ For the mystery of lawlessness does already work. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way. ⁸ Then will the lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nothing by the brightness of his coming; ⁹ even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹ Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie; ¹² that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in 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
Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Genesis 2:12
and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.

Genesis 3:23
Therefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

Genesis 4:2
Again she gave birth, to Cain's brother Abel. Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

Genesis 4:12
From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."

Job 5:10
Who gives rain on the earth, And sends waters on the fields;

Psalms 104:14
He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And plants for man to cultivate, That he may bring forth food out of the earth:

Psalms 135:7
Who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; Who makes lightnings with the rain; Who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have 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.