2 Thessalonians 3:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² and that we may be rescued from wicked and evil people, for not all have faith.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And that we may be delivered from perverse (improper, unrighteous) and wicked (actively malicious) men, for not everybody has faith and is held by it.

American Standard Version (1901)

² and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for all have not faith.

Common English Bible

² Pray too that we will be rescued from inappropriate and evil people since everyone that we meet won’t respond with faith.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² and so that we may be freed from pertinacious and evil men. For not everyone is faithful.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And that we may be delivered from importunate and evil men; for all men have not faith.

2 Thessalonians 3:2 Cross References

Matthew 17:17

Jesus answered, “You faithless and perverse generation, how much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I put up with you? Bring him here to me.”

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.

Luke 18:8

I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and blaspheming, they contradicted what was spoken by Paul.

Acts 13:50

But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and drove them out of their region.

Acts 14:2

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

Acts 17:5

But the Jews became jealous, and with the help of some ruffians in the marketplaces they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. While they were searching for Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly, they attacked Jason’s house.

Acts 25:27

for it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner without indicating the charges against him.”

Acts 28:24

Some were convinced by what he had said, while others refused to believe.

Romans 10:16

But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”

Romans 15:31

that I may be rescued from the unbelievers in Judea and that my ministry to Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

1 Corinthians 15:32

If I fought with wild animals at Ephesus with a merely human perspective, what would I have gained by it? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”

Deuteronomy 32:20

He said, ‘I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faithfulness.

1 Thessalonians 2:18

For we wanted to come to you—certainly I, Paul, wanted to again and again—but Satan blocked our way.

2 Timothy 4:17

But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.