2 Thessalonians 2:11

And for this reason God sends them a misleading influence that they may believe the lie;

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

In Context

10and by every kind of wicked deception for those who are on the way to perdition because they did not welcome into their hearts the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.

12in order that all may come under judgement who have refused to believe the truth and have taken pleasure in unrighteousness.

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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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