2 Thessalonians 2:10

and with every seduction of iniquity, toward those who are perishing because they have not accepted the love of truth, so that they may be saved. For this reason, God will send to them works of deception, so that they may believe in lies,

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In The King James Version

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

In Context

9him whose advent is accompanied by the works of Satan, with every kind of power and signs and false miracles,

11in order that all those who have not believed in the truth, but who have consented to iniquity, may be judged.

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.

Proverbs 4:5Obtain wisdom, obtain prudence. May you neither forget, nor turn away from, the words of my mouth.

Matthew 13:11Responding, he said to them: “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but it has not been given to them.

John 3:19And this is the judgment: that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness more than light. For their works were evil.

John 8:45But if I speak the truth, you do not believe me.

Romans 6:17But thanks be to God that, though you used to be the servants of sin, now you have been obedient from the heart to the very form of the doctrine into which you have been received.

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 →

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