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2 Thessalonians 2:11
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Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,
And therefore God shal send them strong delusion, that they should beleeue lies,
For this reason God sends them a strong delusion so that they will believe the lie,
Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
And for this reason God sends to them a working of error, that they should believe what is false,
So God will send them something powerful that leads them away from the truth and causes them to believe a lie.
Because of this God will send upon them a misleading influence, [an activity of error and deception] so they will believe the lie,
And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:
For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie,
So God will make sure that they are fooled into believing a lie.
This is why God is causing them to go astray, so that they will believe the Lie.
For this reason, God will send them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie.1 Kings 22:22; Ezekiel 14:9; Matthew 24:5,11; Romans 1:24; 1 Timothy 4:1;">[xr]
Wherefore Aloha will send them the working of deception,
Therefore God will send upon them the operation of deception, that they may believe a lie;
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should beleeue a lye:
And therefore God shall sende them strong delusion, that they should beleue lyes:
And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:
And because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie,
And because of this, God will send to them a working of error, for them to believe the lie,
For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,
For this reason God sends them something powerful that leads them away from the truth so they will believe a lie.
Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false.
And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
So God will cause them to be greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies.
For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false,
And, for this cause, God sendeth them an inworking of error, to the end they should believe in the falsehood, -
(2:10) Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying:
For this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie.
And so God sends the power of error to work in them so that they believe what is false.
Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
And therefore God shall send them strong delusion, so that that they shall believe a lie,
And for this reason God sends them a misleading influence that they may believe the lie;
And therfor God schal sende to hem a worching of errour, that thei bileue to leesing,
And for this cause God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false,
And therfore god shall sende them stronge delusion that they shuld beleve lyes:
And for this cause God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:
and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie,
And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:
Therfore shal God sende them stroge delusion, that they shulde beleue lyes,
wherefore God will suffer a spirit of delusion to work them into the belief of a lye:
For this reason, God will allow them to follow false teaching so they will believe a lie.
God won't stand in the way of their delusional fantasies. They'll believe the lies
For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,
And for this reason God sends upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
for: Psalms 81:11, Psalms 81:12, Psalms 109:17, Isaiah 29:9-14, John 12:39-43, Romans 1:21-25, Romans 1:28
God: 1 Kings 22:18-22, 2 Chronicles 18:18-22, Isaiah 6:9, Isaiah 6:10, Ezekiel 14:9
that: Isaiah 44:20, Isaiah 66:4, Jeremiah 27:10, Ezekiel 21:29, Matthew 24:5, Matthew 24:11, 1 Timothy 4:1
Reciprocal: Genesis 20:6 - sinning Genesis 39:19 - heard Exodus 10:20 - General Leviticus 13:29 - General Deuteronomy 13:3 - proveth Judges 9:23 - God 1 Samuel 18:10 - and he prophesied 2 Samuel 24:1 - moved 2 Chronicles 18:19 - Who shall entice Psalms 69:27 - Add Isaiah 19:14 - hath mingled Isaiah 30:28 - causing Isaiah 63:17 - why Ezekiel 12:2 - which Ezekiel 13:6 - made Ezekiel 20:39 - Go ye Hosea 5:4 - They will not frame their doings Hosea 10:2 - Their heart is divided Micah 2:11 - he shall Matthew 13:15 - their eyes Acts 19:35 - and of 2 Timothy 3:13 - being
Cross-References
And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.
And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.
And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,.... Or "efficacy of error", which God may be said to send; and the Alexandrian copy reads, "does send"; because it is not a bare permission but a voluntary one; or it is his will that error should be that truth may be tried, and be illustrated by its contrary, and shine the more through the force of opposition to it; and that those which are on the side of it might be made manifest, as well as that the rejecters of the Gospel might be punished; for the efficacy of error is not to be considered as a sin, of which God cannot be the author, but as a punishment for sin, and to which men are given up, and fall under the power of, because they receive not the love of the truth, which is the reason here given: and this comes to pass partly through God's denying his grace, or withholding that light and knowledge, by which error may be discovered and detected; and by taking from men the knowledge and conscience of things they had, see Romans 1:28. So that they call evil good, and good evil, and do not appear to have the common sense and reason of mankind, at least do not act according to it; and by giving them up to judicial blindness and hardness of heart, and to the god of this world, to blind their minds; and without this it is not to be accounted for, that the followers of antichrist should give into such senseless notions as those of transubstantiation, works of supererogation, c., or into such stupid practices as worshipping of images, praying to saints departed, and paying such a respect to the pretended relics of saints, c., as they do but a spirit of slumber is given them, and eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, because of their rejection of the Gospel: and
that they should believe a lie that the pope is Christ's vicar on earth, and has power to forgive sins; that the bread and wine in the Lord's supper are transubstantiated into the very body and blood of Christ; with other lying tenets spoken in hypocrisy concerning good works, merit, pardon, penance; c. with a multitude of lying wonders and false miracles, of which their legends are full and this is the first and more near end of strong delusion or efficacious error being sent them; the more remote and ultimate one follows.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And for this cause - Because they choose error, or their hearts love that more than they do truth. The original reason then of their embracing and adhering to the system was not an arbitrary decree on the part of God, but that they did not love the truth. Hence, he gave them up to this system of error. If a man strongly prefers error to truth, and sin to holiness, it is not wrong to allow him freely to evince his own preference.
God shall send them strong delusion - Greek: “energy of deceit;” a Hebraism, meaning strong deceit, The agency of God is here distinctly recognised, in accordance with the uniform statements of the Scriptures, respecting evil; compare Exodus 7:13; Exodus 9:12; Exodus 10:1, Exodus 10:20, Exodus 10:27; Exodus 11:10; Exodus 14:8. Isaiah 45:7. On the nature of this agency, see the notes on John 12:40. It is not necessary here to suppose that there was any positive influence on the part of God in causing this delusion to come upon them, but all the force of the language will be met, as well as the reasoning of the apostle, by supposing that God withdrew all restraint, and suffered men simply to show that they did not love the truth. God often places people in circumstances to develop their own nature, and it cannot be shown to be wrong that He should do so. If people have no love of the truth, and no desire to be saved, it is not improper that they should be allowed to manifest this. How it happened that they had no “love of the truth,” is a different question, to which the remarks of the apostle do not appertain; compare Romans 9:17-18, note; Romans 1:24, note.
That they should believe a lie - This does not affirm that God wished them to believe a lie; nor that He would not have preferred that they should believe the truth; nor that He exerted any direct agency to cause them to believe a lie. It means merely that He left them, because they did not love the truth, to believe what was false, and what would end in their destruction. Can anyone doubt that this constantly occurs in the world? People are left to believe impostors; to trust to false guides; to rely on unfounded information; to credit those who live to delude and betray the innocent; and to follow those who lead them to ruin. God does not interpose by direct power to preserve them. Can anyone doubt this? Yet this is not especially the doctrine of revelation. The fact pertains just as much to the infidel as it does to the believer in Christianity, and he is just as much bound to explain it as the Christian is. It belongs to our world - to us all - and it should not be charged on Christianity as a doctrine pertaining especially to that system.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 11. God shall send them strong delusion — For this very cause, that they would not receive the love of the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness, therefore God permits strong delusion to occupy their minds; so that they believe a lie rather than the truth, prefer false apostles and their erroneous doctrines to the pure truths of the Gospel, brought to them by the well-accredited messengers of God; being ever ready to receive any false Messiah, while they systematically and virulently reject the true one.
