New Revised Standard Version
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but only until the one who now restrains it is removed.

Contemporary English Version
His mysterious power is already at work, but someone is holding him back. And the wicked one won't appear until this someone is out of the way.

New American Bible
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. But the one who restrains is to do so only for the present, until he is removed from the scene.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now holdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way.

For the mystery of iniquity already worketh: only that he who now holdeth do hold, until he be taken out of the way.

the mystery.

1 Timothy 3:16 And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

Revelation 17:5,7 And on her forehead a name was written: A mystery: Babylon the great, the mother of the fornications and the abominations of the earth. . . .

doth.

Acts 20:29 I know that after my departure ravening wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

Colossians 2:18-23 Let no man seduce you, willing in humility and religion of angels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up by the sense of his flesh: . . .

2 Timothy 2:17,18 And their speech spreadeth like a canker: of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus: . . .

1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last hour: and as you have heard that Antichrist cometh, even now there are become many Antichrists: whereby we know that it is the last hour.

1 John 4:3 And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus is not of God. And this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh: and he is now already in the world.

he who.

2 Thessalonians 2:6 And now you know what withholdeth, that he may be revealed in his time.