2 Thessalonians 2:12
that they may be judged — all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
In Context
11and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:35Mine [are] vengeance and recompense, At the due time — doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.
Psalms 50:16And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee — to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?
Hosea 7:3With their wickedness they make glad a king, And with their lies — princes.
Mark 14:11and having heard, they were glad, and promised to give him money, and he was seeking how, conveniently, he might deliver him up.
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;
Romans 1:32who the righteous judgment of God having known — that those practising such things are worthy of death — not only do them, but also have delight with those practising 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 →