2 Thessalonians 2:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁰ and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ And by unlimited seduction to evil and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing (going to perdition) because they did not welcome the Truth but refused to love it that they might be saved.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ It will happen with every sort of wicked deception of those who are heading toward destruction because they have refused to love the truth that would allow them to be saved.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ and with every seduction of iniquity, toward those who are perishing because they have not accepted the love of truth, so that they may be saved. For this reason, God will send to them works of deception, so that they may believe in lies,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish; because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:

2 Thessalonians 2:10 Cross References

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Matthew 13:11

And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

John 3:17

For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

John 5:34

Not that the testimony which I receive is from man; but I say this that you may be saved.

Romans 10:1

Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

Romans 16:18

For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.

Romans 6:17

But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 16:22

If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!

2 Corinthians 11:13

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:15

So it is not strange if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.

2 Corinthians 2:15

For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word; but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

Ephesians 4:14

so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles.

1 Thessalonians 2:16

by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they may be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!

2 Thessalonians 2:12

so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

1 Timothy 2:4

who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Hebrews 3:13

But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

2 Peter 2:12

But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed, reviling in matters of which they are ignorant, will be destroyed in the same destruction with them,

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.