2 Thessalonians 2:10

Contextual Overview

³ Don't be fooled by anything they might say. That day of the Lord will not come until the turning away from God happens. And that day will not come until the Man of Evil appears, the one who belongs to hell. ³ Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition, ³ Let no ma deceave you by eny meanes for the lorde commeth not excepte ther come a departynge fyrst and that that synfnll man be opened ye sonne of perdicion ³ Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction, ³ No one is to deceive you in any way! For it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, ³ Do not let anyone fool you in any way. That day of the Lord will not come until the turning away from God happens and the Man of Evil, who is on his way to hell, appears. ³ let no man beguile you in any wise: for [it will not be,] except the falling away comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition, 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; ³ Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, ³ Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

Bible Verse Review
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deceivableness: Romans 16:18, 2 Corinthians 2:17, 2 Corinthians 4:2, 2 Corinthians 11:13, 2 Corinthians 11:15, Ephesians 4:14, 2 Peter 2:18, Hebrews 3:13

in them: 1 Corinthians 1:18, 2 Corinthians 2:15, 2 Corinthians 4:3, 2 Peter 2:12

they received: Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 2:1-6, Proverbs 4:5, Proverbs 4:6, Proverbs 8:17, Matthew 13:11, John 3:19-21, John 8:45-47, Romans 2:7, Romans 2:8, Romans 6:17, 1 Corinthians 16:22, James 1:16-18

that they: John 3:17, John 5:34, Romans 10:1, 1 Thessalonians 2:16, 1 Timothy 2:4

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:21 - I will harden Deuteronomy 29:4 - General 1 Kings 22:22 - a lying spirit Nehemiah 6:5 - with an open letter Job 21:14 - for we Job 24:13 - they know Psalms 25:12 - him Psalms 50:17 - hatest Psalms 106:7 - Our Psalms 109:17 - General Proverbs 5:6 - her Proverbs 12:1 - loveth Isaiah 47:9 - for the multitude Isaiah 66:4 - will choose Jeremiah 5:1 - that seeketh Ezekiel 12:2 - which Ezekiel 13:4 - like Daniel 8:12 - and it cast Daniel 12:10 - but the wicked Hosea 9:7 - the multitude Amos 4:5 - for Zechariah 7:12 - lest Matthew 13:15 - their eyes Matthew 13:23 - good Matthew 21:27 - We cannot tell Mark 4:6 - no root Mark 11:33 - We Luke 17:1 - It is Luke 20:7 - that John 9:39 - might be John 16:3 - because Acts 7:42 - and gave Acts 8:14 - received Acts 17:11 - they received Acts 19:35 - and of Romans 1:18 - who hold Romans 1:24 - God Romans 1:28 - as they did Romans 9:18 - will he Romans 11:7 - and the rest 1 Corinthians 15:33 - Be Ephesians 5:6 - no 2 Thessalonians 2:13 - through Titus 1:10 - there Hebrews 3:10 - err Hebrews 10:26 - after James 3:6 - a world 2 Peter 3:5 - they willingly Revelation 13:13 - he doeth Revelation 17:17 - put Revelation 22:15 - whosoever

Cross-References

Psalms 46:4
A river brings joy to the city of our God, the sacred home of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river, the streams whereof make glad the city of God, the holy of the tabernacles of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river that brings joy to the city of God, the holy place where God Most High lives.

Psalms 46:4
The river's channels bring joy to the city of God, the special, holy dwelling place of the sovereign One.

Psalms 46:4
[There is] a river, the streams of which shall make glad the city of God, the holy [place] of the tabernacles of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, The holy place of the tents of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.

Psalms 46:4
The feersnesse of flood makith glad the citee of God; the hiyeste God hath halewid his tabernacle.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness,.... Not that he deceives, or goes about to deceive, or thinks to deceive by open unrighteousness; but by unrighteousness, under a pretence of righteousness and holiness; as with the doctrines of justification and salvation by a man's own righteousness, with the doctrines of merit and of works of supererogation, which are taking to men, and by which they are deceived, and are no other than unrighteousness with God, and betray ignorance of his righteousness, and a non-submission to it; as also with practices which carry a show of holiness, religion, and devotion, when they are no other than acts of impiety, superstition, and will worship; as their litanies and prayers, their worship of images, angels, and saints departed, their frequent fasts and festivals, their pilgrimages, penance, and various acts of mortification and the like: but then these deceptions only have place

in them that perish; whom the god of this world has blinded, from whom the Gospel is hid, and to whom it is foolishness: all men indeed are in a lost perishing condition, through original and actual sin; but all shall not perish, there are some that God will not have perish, whom Christ is given for that they should not perish, and whom he has redeemed by his blood, and to whom he gives eternal life; but there are others that are vessels of wrath afore ordained to condemnation, reprobate men left to themselves, and given up to their hearts' lusts; and these, and only these, are finally and totally deceived, by the signs and lying wonders, and false appearances of antichrist; see Matthew 24:24

because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved; by the "truth" is meant either Christ the truth of types, the sum of promises, in whom the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are, and by whom grace and truth came; or the Gospel, often called truth, and the word of truth, it coming from the God of truth, has for its subject Christ the truth, is dictated and directed into by the spirit of truth, and contains nothing but truth: and by "the love" of it is meant, either the loveliness of it, for truth is an amiable, lovely thing, in its nature and use; or an affection for it, which there is, where true faith in it is, for faith works by love: there may be a flashy affection for the truths of the Gospel, where there is no true faith in Christ, or the root of the matter is not, as in the stony ground hearers; and there may be an historical faith in the doctrines of the Gospel, where the power of them is denied, and there is no true hearty love for them; and in these persons there is neither faith nor love; the truths of the Gospel are neither believed by them, nor are they affected with them, that so, they might be saved; for where there is true faith in the Gospel of Christ, and in Christ the substance of it, there is salvation; the reason therefore of these men's perishing is not the decree of God, nor even want of the means of grace, the revelation of the Gospel, but their rejection and contempt of it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness - There are two ideas here. The first is, that there would be deceit; and the other is, that it would be for the purpose of promoting unrighteousness or iniquity. The iniquitous system would be maintained by fraudulent methods. No one who has read Pascal’s Provincial Letters can ever doubt that this description is applicable to the system of the Jesuits; and no one familiar with the acts of the papacy, as they have always been practiced, can doubt that the whole system is accurately described by this language. The plausible reasoning by which the advocates of that system have palliated and apologized for sins of various kinds, has been among its most remarkable features.

In them that perish - Among those who will perish; that is, among the abandoned and wicked. The reference is to men of corrupt minds and lives, over whom this system would have power; countenancing them in their depravity, and fitting them still farther for destruction. The idea is, that these acts would have special reference to men who would be lost at any rate, and who would be sustained in their wickedness by this false and delusive system.

Because they received not the love of the truth - They prefer this system of error and delusion to the simple and pure gospel, by which they might have been saved.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 10. And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness — With every art that cunning can invent and unrighteousness suggest, in order to delude and deceive.

In them that perish — Εν τοις απολλυμενοις· Among them that are destroyed; and they are destroyed and perish because they would not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. So they perish because they obstinately refuse to be saved, and receive a lie in preference to the truth. This has been true of all the Jews from the days of the apostle until now.