2 Thessalonians 2:12

King James Version

That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Geneva Bible (1587)
That all they might be damned which beleeued not the trueth, but had pleasure in vnrighteousnes.

Christian Standard Bible®
so that all will be condemned—those who did not believe the truth but delighted in unrighteousness.

Hebrew Names Version
that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Darby Translation
that all might be judged who have not believed the truth, but have found pleasure in unrighteousness.

Easy-to-Read Version
They will all be condemned because they did not believe the truth and because they enjoyed doing evil.

Amplified Bible
in order that all may be judged and condemned who did not believe the truth [about their sin, and the need for salvation through Christ], but instead took pleasure in unrighteousness.

American Standard Version
that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Berean Standard Bible
in order that judgment will come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.

Contemporary English Version
All of them will be punished, because they would rather do evil than believe the truth.

Complete Jewish Bible
The result will be that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken their pleasure in wickedness, will be condemned.

International Standard Version
Then all who have not believed the truth but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.Romans 1:32;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
that they will believe the lie, and all of them will be judged who have not believed in the truth, but have had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Murdock Translation
and that they all may be condemned, who believe not the truth, but have pleasure in iniquity.

King James Version (1611)
That they all might bee damned who beleeued not the trueth, but had pleasure in vnrighteousnes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
That all they myght be dampned whiche beleued not the trueth, but had pleasure in vnryghteousnes.

English Revised Version
that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Lexham English Bible
in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.

Literal Translation
that all may be judged, those not believing the truth, but who have delighted in unrighteousness.

New American Standard Bible
in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

New Century Version
So all those will be judged guilty who did not believe the truth, but enjoyed doing evil.

New English Translation
And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.

New King James Version
that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

New Living Translation
Then they will be condemned for enjoying evil rather than believing the truth.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In order that should be judged who would not believe in the truth, but were well-pleased with the unrighteousness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(2-11) That all may be judged who have not believed the truth but have consented to iniquity.

George Lamsa Translation
That they all, who did not believe in the truth but preferred unrighteousness, might be damned.

Good News Translation
The result is that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in sin, will be condemned.

World English Bible
that they all might be judged who didn't believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
That they all may be condemned, who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Weymouth's New Testament
in order that all may come under judgement who have refused to believe the truth and have taken pleasure in unrighteousness.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
that alle be demed, whiche bileueden not to treuthe, but consentiden to wickidnesse.

Webster's Bible Translation
That they all may be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
that all they myght be damned which beleved not the trueth but had pleasure in vnrightewesnes.

Update Bible Version
that they all might be judged who did not believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Young's Literal Translation
that they may be judged -- all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.

Bible in Basic English
So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
yt all they might be daned, which beleued not the trueth, but had pleasure in vnrighteousnes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
to the condemnation of all those, who instead of embracing the gospel, had pleasure in iniquity.

New Life Bible
They will all be guilty as they stand before God because they wanted to do what was wrong.

Simplified Cowboy Version
and be slaughtered for not believing the truth, but delight in wickedness.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

Legacy Standard Bible
in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in unrighteousness.

Contextual Overview

³ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; ⁴ Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. ⁵ Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? ⁶ And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. ⁷ For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. ⁸ And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: ⁹ Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 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. ¹¹ And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: ¹² That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Bible Verse Review
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they: Deuteronomy 32:35, Mark 16:16, John 3:36, 1 Thessalonians 5:9, 2 Peter 2:3, Jude 1:4, Jude 1:5

but: Psalms 11:5, Psalms 50:16-21, Psalms 52:3, Psalms 52:4, Hosea 7:3, Micah 3:2, Mark 14:11, John 3:19-21, Romans 1:32, Romans 2:8, Romans 8:7, Romans 8:8, Romans 12:9, 2 Peter 2:13-15, 3 John 1:11

Reciprocal: Exodus 10:20 - General Leviticus 13:29 - General Judges 9:23 - God 2 Chronicles 18:19 - Who shall entice Psalms 69:27 - Add Isaiah 63:17 - why Hosea 5:4 - They will not frame their doings Hosea 10:2 - Their heart is divided Matthew 13:19 - and understandeth John 16:13 - he will show Romans 6:13 - unrighteousness 1 Corinthians 4:7 - who Philippians 3:19 - end 2 Thessalonians 2:13 - through Hebrews 3:19 - General Hebrews 4:2 - not being Hebrews 10:39 - but

Cross-References

Exodus 28:20
And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.

Exodus 39:13
And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in ouches of gold in their inclosings.

Numbers 11:7
And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.

Job 28:16
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Ezekiel 28:13
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That they all might be damned,.... Or judged, discerned and distinguished from true Christians and real believers, or rather that they might be condemned and punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and have their portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; where the devil, the false prophet, and the beast, whose followers they are, will be cast; and it is but a righteous thing with God to give them up to such delusion,

that they may be damned, since they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved; and the following character of them justifies the divine procedure:

who believed not the truth; neither the word of truth, the Gospel of salvation, nor Christ, who is truth itself; and therefore were righteously given up to believe a lie; and whose damnation is just, according to the declaration of Christ, he that believeth not shall be damned:

but had pleasure in unrighteousness; in sin, as all unrighteousness is; in sinful ways and works, and in unrighteous doctrines; as the doctrines of merit, of works of supererogation, and of justification by works, being derogatory to the justice of God, and to the righteousness of Christ; and in the unrighteous persecution and bloodshed of the saints, the martyrs of Jesus; in which the followers of antichrist take as much delight and pleasure, as an intemperate man does in drinking wine or strong drink to excess; and therefore the whore of Babylon is said to be drunk with the blood of the saints; and it is but just she should have blood to drink, or be punished both with temporal and eternal destruction.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That they all might be damned - The word “damned” we commonly apply now exclusively to future punishment, and it has a harsher signification than the original word; compare the notes, 1 Corinthians 11:29. The Greek word - κρίνω krinō - means to judge, determine, decide; and then to condemn; Romans 2:27; Romans 14:22; James 4:11; John 7:51; Luke 19:22; Acts 13:27. It may be applied to the judgment of the last day John 5:22; John 8:50; Acts 17:31; Rom 3:6; 2 Timothy 4:1, but not necessarily. The word “judged” or “condemned,” would, in this place, express all that the Greek word necessarily conveys. Yet there can be no doubt that the judgment or condemnation which is referred to, is that which will occur when the Saviour will appear. It does not seem to me to be a necessary interpretation of this to suppose that it teaches that God would send a strong delusion that they should believe a lie, in order that all might be damned who did not believe the truth; or that he desired that they should be damned, and sent this as the means of securing it; but the sense is, that this course of events would be allowed to occur, “so that” ἵνα hina - not εἰς τὸ eis to all who do not love the truth would be condemned.

The particle here used, and rendered “that” (ἵνα hina), in connection with the phrase “all might be damned” is employed in two general senses, either as marking the end, purpose, or cause for, or on account of, which anything is done; to the end that, or in order that it may be so and so; or as marking simply the result, event, or upshot of an action, so that, so as that. Robinson, Lexicon. In the latter case it denotes merely that something will really take place, without indicating that such was the design of the agent, or that what brought it about was in order that it might take place. It is also used, in the later Greek, so as neither to mark the purpose, nor to indicate that the event would occur, but merely to point out that to which the preceding words refer. It is not proper, therefore, to infer that this passage teaches that all these things would be brought about in the arrangements of Providence, in order that they might be damned who came under their influence. The passage teaches that such would be the result; that the connection between these delusions and the condemnation of those who were deluded, would be certain. It cannot be proved from the Scriptures that God sends on men strong delusions, in order that they may be damned. No such construction should be put on a passage of Scripture if it can be avoided, and it cannot be shown that it is necessary here.

Who believed not the truth The grounds or reasons why they would be damned are now stated. One would be that they did not believe the truth - not that God sent upon them delusion in order that they might be damned. That people will be condemned for not believing the truth, and that it will be right thus to condemn them, is everywhere the doctrine of the Scriptures, and is equally the doctrine of common sense; see the notes on Mark 16:16.

But had pleasure in unrighteousness - This is the second ground or reason of their condemnation. If men have pleasure in sin, it is proper that they should be punished. There can be no more just ground of condemnation than that a man loves to do wrong.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 12. That they all might be damned — Ἱνα κριθωσι· So that they may all be condemned who believed not the truth when it was proclaimed to them; but took pleasure in unrighteousness, preferring that to the way of holiness. Their condemnation was the effect of their refusal to believe the truth; and they refused to believe it because they loved their sins. For a farther and more pointed illustration of the preceding verses, see the conclusion of this chapter. "2 Thessalonians 2:17"