2 Thessalonians 2:5
ESV
Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
NIV
Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things?
NASB
Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?
CSB
Don’t you remember that when I was still with you I used to tell you about this?
NLT
Don’t you remember that I told you about all this when I was with you?
KJV
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
NKJV
Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
What does 2 Thessalonians 2:5 mean?
The Thessalonians should have known this information because Paul had taught them about the day of the Lord when he was with them. He asks, "Do you not remember . . . I told you these things?" Paul had been in Thessalonica for only three Sabbaths, and yet he had taught the believers a great deal about the rapture and the day of the Lord. He did not shrink from teaching prophecy to new believers,. Paul had also expressed many of these ideas in a prior letter (1 Thessalonians 1:10; 4:13–17; 5:1–11).It is important to remember biblical teaching, because false teaching abounds. The best defense against the temptation to doubt or forget or contradict God's Word is to meditate upon it and memorize it. When the Lord appointed Joshua to lead the Israelites into the Promised Land, He commanded him to meditate on the Book of the Law day and night so he would carefully obey it (Joshua 1:8).
