2 Thessalonians 2:12
so that they might be condemned--all those who did not believe the truth, but who delighted in unrighteousness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
In Context
11And because of this God will send them the force of a delusion, for them to believe a lie,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense at the time when their foot shall slide. For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
Psalms 50:16But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth,
Hosea 7:3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the rulers with their lies.
Mark 14:11And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him silver. And he sought how he might betray him conveniently.
John 3:19And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their deeds were evil.
Romans 1:32Who, knowing the righteousness of God, that those who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but also favor those who do.
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 →