2 Thessalonians 2:10

and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

Young's Literal Translation

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

9[him,] whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders,

11and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie,

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:7Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

Proverbs 4:5Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.

Matthew 13:11And he answering said to them that — 'To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given,

John 3:19'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

John 8:45'And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

Romans 6:17and thanks to God, that ye were servants of the sin, and — were obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which ye were delivered up;

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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