2 Thessalonians 2:12
and that they all may be condemned, who believe not the truth, but have pleasure in iniquity.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
In Context
11Therefore God will send upon them the operation of deception, that they may believe a lie;
Cross References
Mark 14:11And when they heard him, they rejoiced; and they promised to give him money. And he sought for opportunity to betray him.
John 3:19And this is the ground of condemnation, that light hath come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, for their deeds have been evil.
Romans 1:32These, while they know the judgment of God, that he condemneth those to death who perpetrate such things, are not only doers of them, but the companions of such as 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 →