2 Thessalonians 2:10
and in all the deception of unrighteousness to those who perish; because they did not receive the divine love of the truth, that they might be saved.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
9whose coming is according to the energy of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
11And on this account God sends to them the working of delusion, that they should believe a lie:
Cross References
Matthew 13:11He responding said to them, Because it has been given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it has not been given.
John 3:19And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light; for their works are evil.
John 8:45And because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.
Romans 6:17But thanks be unto God, that whereas ye were servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the type of teaching into which ye were delivered:
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 →