2 Thessalonians 2:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

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

He answered, “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

“Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 5:34

Not that I accept such human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

Romans 10:1

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the simple-minded.

Romans 6:17

But thanks be to God that you who were slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the form of teaching to which you were entrusted

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

1 Corinthians 16:22

Let anyone be accursed who has no love for the Lord. Our Lord, come!

2 Corinthians 11:13

For such boasters are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:15

So it is not strange if his ministers also disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness. Their end will match 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 peddlers of God’s word like so many, but as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God, we are speaking in Christ before God.

Ephesians 4:14

We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming;

1 Thessalonians 2:16

by hindering us from speaking to the gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins, but wrath has overtaken them at last.

2 Thessalonians 2:12

so that all who have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

1 Timothy 2:4

who desires everyone 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,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

2 Peter 2:12

These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed, they also will be destroyed,

2 Peter 2:18

For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with debased desires of the flesh they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.