2 Thessalonians 2:12
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
King James Version
In Context
11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Psalms 50:16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
Hosea 7:3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Mark 14:11And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
John 3:19And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Romans 1:32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Matthew Henry on 2 Thessalonians 2:2-13
Cautions against False Alarm. ( a. d. 52.) 1 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. 3 Let no man deceive you by any means— From these words it appears that some among the Thessalonians had mistaken the apostle's meaning, in what he had written in his former epistle about the coming of Christ, by… Read the whole commentary →