2 Thessalonians 2:11
and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 22:18And the king of Israel saith unto Jehoshaphat, 'Have I not said unto thee, He doth not prophesy of me good, but evil?'
Psalms 81:11But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.
Isaiah 6:9And He saith, 'Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye — to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye — to see, and ye do not know.
Isaiah 44:20Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: 'Is there not a lie in my right hand?'
Jeremiah 27:10For falsehood they are prophesying to you, so as to remove you far from off your ground, and I have driven you out, and ye have perished.
Ezekiel 21:29In the seeing for thee of a vain thing, In the divining for thee of a lie, To put thee on the necks of the wounded of the wicked, whose day hath come, In the time of the iniquity of the end.
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 →