2 Thessalonians 2:7 Cross References - BBE

⁷ For the secret of evil is even now at work: but there is one who is keeping back the evil till he is taken out of the way.

²⁹ I am conscious that after I am gone, evil wolves will come in among you, doing damage to the flock;

¹⁸ Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind, ¹⁹ And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God. ²⁰ If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders ²¹ Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands, ²² Rules which are all to come to an end with their use after the orders and teaching of men? ²³ These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

¹⁶ And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.

¹⁷ And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus; ¹⁸ Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour; and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so now a number of Antichrists have come to you; and by this we are certain that it is the last hour.

³ And every spirit which does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which you have had word; and it is in the world even now.

⁵ And on her brow was a name, SECRET, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE EVIL WOMEN AND OF THE UNCLEAN THINGS OF THE EARTH.

⁷ And the angel said to me, Why were you surprised? I will make clear to you the secret of the woman, and of the beast on which she is seated, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.