2 Thessalonians 2:9

who comes, through the efficacy of Satan, with all kind of lying power, and signs,

1770 John Worsley NT

In The King James Version

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

In Context

8And then the wicked one shall be detected, whom the Lord will destroy by the breath of his mouth, and abolish by the brightness of his coming:

10and wonders, and with all iniquitous fraud, among those that shall perish; because they received not the love of the truth, by which they might be saved.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:24for there shall rise up false Christs, and false prophets, who shall shew great signs and prodigies, so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Luke 11:25and when he cometh he findeth it swept and set in order.

John 8:41But ye do the works of your father. Then said they unto Him, We are not born of fornication, we have one Father, even God.

Acts 8:9But there was before in the city a man named Simon practising magic and bewitching the people of Samaria, giving out that he was some great person.

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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