2 Thessalonians 2
1 Now [I want to write to you] about the time when our Lord Jesus Christ will return and when [God] will gather us together to [where Jesus] is. My fellow believers, I urge you
Broeders, met betrekking tot de wederkomst van onzen Heer Jesus Christus en onze vereniging met Hem, verzoeken we u,
2 that you think calmly [about any message] that [claims/says] that the Lord has [already] come again. Do not be shaken or alarmed/worried by any such message. [It does not matter] if [it is a message that someone claims God’s Spirit] revealed to him, or if [it is some other message that someone] has spoken, or whether [it is a message that someone claims] that I wrote in a letter.
niet zo gemakkelijk uw bezinning te verliezen, en u niet van streek te laten brengen door een geestesuiting, door een woord of door een brief, die van ons heet te komen: alsof de Dag des Heren aanstaande is.
3 Do not allow anyone to deceive you in any way [with the result that you believe any such message]. 2 Thessalonians 2:3b-5 [The Lord] will not come [MTY] [immediately]. First, [many people] [PRS] will rebel [against God]. The result of their rebelling will be that [they will accept and obey] the man who will sin very greatly [against God].
Laat niemand u misleiden, hoe dan ook. Want voordat de afval heeft plaats gehad, en de Man der goddeloosheid is verschenen, het kind der verdoeming,
4 He will be the [supreme] enemy [of God]. He will [proudly] exalt himself above everything that [people] consider to be some god and above everything that people worship. [As a result of wanting people to worship him], he will [even enter] God’s Temple and sit down [there to rule]. He will publicly proclaim that he himself is God! But [God] will [certainly] punish that man forever!
de tegenstander die zich verheft tegen al wat God of heilig heet, zodat hij zich neerzet in Gods tempel en zich aanstelt als God…. komt de Dag des Heren niet.
5 (I am sure that you remember that I kept telling you these things while I was still with you [there in Thessalonica]./Do you not remember that I continued telling you these things while I was still with you [there in Thessalonica]?) [RHQ]
Herinnert gij u niet, dat ik u dit gezegd heb, toen ik nog bij u was?
6 You also know that there is something (OR, someone) that is preventing this man [from being revealed] {[from revealing himself]}. This man is being (held back/restrained) [now] for him to be revealed {that he reveal himself} at the time that [God has planned] [MTY].
En nu weet gij, wat hem tegenhoudt, zodat hij eerst te zijner tijd zich openbaren zal.
7 [Although Satan] is already secretly causing [people] to reject [God’s] laws, (the one/God) who is preventing [this man from revealing himself] now [will continue to prevent him from doing that] until he/[God] removes him.
Zeker, het mysterie der ongerechtigheid is reeds aan het werk; maar er is er nog een, die het tegenhoudt. Eerst als deze verdwenen zal zijn,
8 It is then that [God will allow] this man, who rejects [God’s] laws [completely], to be revealed {to reveal himself}. Then the Lord Jesus will destroy him, by simply commanding it [MTY]. Jesus, by his own glorious arrival, will cause him to become [completely] powerless.
dan zal de Goddeloze verschijnen, dien de Heer Jesus zal vernietigen door de adem van zijn mond, en verlammen door de glans van zijn komst;
9 But [before Jesus destroys him], Satan will make him very powerful. As a result, he [will do all kinds of supernatural] miracles and amazing things [DOU] that will seem as though [God has enabled him to do them].
zijn verschijning zal geschieden als een werk van den Satan, met allerlei valse kracht, tekenen en wonderen,
10 And by doing wicked [things], he will completely deceive those who will [certainly] (perish/go to hell). [He will deceive them] because they will have refused to love the true [message]. So they will not be saved {God will not save them}. (questioned)
en met allerlei misdadige misleiding voor hen, die ten verderve gaan, omdat ze de liefde voor de waarheid niet hebben aangekweekt tot hun redding.
11 So, God, by his power, will enable this man to easily deceive people, so that they will believe what [this man] falsely [claims/says that he is].
En daarom zendt God hun een kracht ter misleiding, waardoor ze de leugen geloven;
12 The result will be that everyone will be [rightly] condemned {that [God] will [justly] condemn everyone} [to be punished] who did not believe the true [message], but who instead gladly chose [to be doing] what is wicked.
opdat allen zouden veroordeeld worden, die de waarheid niet hebben geloofd, maar behagen hadden in de ongerechtigheid.
13 [Our] fellow believers, whom our Lord [Jesus] loves, we thank God very frequently for you. It is appropriate/right for us to do that, because God chose you (from the beginning [MTY] [of creation/before the world existed]) in order that he might save [you] as a result of [your] believing the true [message] and as a result of [God’s] Spirit setting you apart [for God].
Maar wij, wij moeten God altijd danken voor u, broeders, geliefd door den Heer, omdat God van de aanvang af door heiliging des Geestes en geloof aan de waarheid u ter zaligheid heeft uitverkoren,
14 [We thank God that] he chose you as a result of our [proclaiming] the message about Christ [to you], in order that you might (share in/have) some of the glory that our Lord Jesus Christ has.
en ook door ons Evangelie u heeft geroepen, om de heerlijkheid te verwerven van Jesus Christus onzen Heer.
15 So, [our fellow believers, continue to be firm concerning what you believe]; that is, continue believing the [true] teaching that we gave to you by our speaking to you and by our [writing] a letter [to you].
Daarom broeders, staat pal, en houdt vast aan de overleveringen, die gij geleerd hebt door ons woord of ons schrijven.
16 Our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God, our Father, loves us and encourages us and causes us to confidently expect [to receive] the eternal things that [he has promised to give to us] as a result of [Christ] acting kindly toward us in a way we did not deserve. (aiōnios g166)
Onze Heer Jesus Christus zelf en God onze Vader, die ons heeft liefgehad, en door zijn genade eeuwige troost en goede hoop heeft geschonken, (aiōnios g166)
17 [We strongly pray that] God and Jesus together will encourage you! And we pray that they will cause you to continue doing and saying things that God considers to be good.
Hij trooste uw harten en make ze sterk in ieder goed werk en goed woord.
