2 Thessalonians 2:12
that they may all be judged, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
In Context
11And for this cause God sendeth them a working of delusion, that they may believe the falsehood;
Cross References
Psalms 50:16And to the wicked God saith, “To what purpose dost thou talk of my statutes? And why hast thou my laws upon thy lips?—
Hosea 7:3With their wickedness they gladden the king, And with their falsehoods the princes; All of them are adulterers;
Mark 14:11And they when they heard it were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought a good opportunity to deliver him up.
John 3:19And this is the condemnation, that the light hath come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil.
Romans 1:32who, although knowing the ordinance of God, that they who practise such things deserve death, not only do them themselves, but approve of those who 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 →