2 Thessalonians 2:10

to the ruin of those who are on the path to destruction, because they have never received and loved the truth to their own salvation.

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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

9When the lawless person comes, there will be great activity on the part of Satan, in the form of all kinds of deceptive miracles, signs, and marvels, as well as of wicked attempts to delude –

11That is why God places them under the influence of a delusion, to cause them to believe a lie;

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Cross References

Matthew 13:11“To you,” answered Jesus, “the knowledge of the hidden truths of the kingdom of heaven has been imparted, but not to those.

John 3:19The ground of their condemnation is this, that though the light has come into the world, people preferred the darkness to the light, because their actions were wicked.

John 8:45But, as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.

Romans 6:17God be thanked that, though you were once servants of sin, yet you learned to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed.

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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