2 Thessalonians 2:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
  • 1 Cor 1:18 : 18 For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.
  • 2 Cor 4:2-3 : 2 And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong. 3 But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:15 : 15 So it is no great thing if his servants make themselves seem to be servants of righteousness; whose end will be the reward of their works.
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;
  • 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.
  • 1 Tim 2:4 : 4 Whose desire is that all men may have salvation and come to the knowledge of what is true.
  • Heb 3:13 : 13 But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:
  • Jas 1:16-18 : 16 Do not be turned from the right way, dear brothers. 17 Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning. 18 Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.
  • 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;
  • Prov 2:1-6 : 1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind; 2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge; 3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge; 4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth; 5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours. 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
  • Prov 4:5-6 : 5 Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth. 6 Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.
  • Prov 8:17 : 17 Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.
  • Matt 13:11 : 11 And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
  • John 3:17 : 17 God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.
  • John 3:19-21 : 19 And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil. 20 The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen. 21 But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.
  • John 5:34 : 34 But I have no need of a man's witness: I only say these things so that you may have salvation.
  • John 8:45-47 : 45 But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me. 46 Which of you is able truly to say that I am a sinner? If I say what is true, why have you no belief in me? 47 He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.
  • Rom 2:7-8 : 7 To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life: 8 But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,
  • Rom 6:17 : 17 But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
  • Rom 10:1 : 1 Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is, that they may get salvation.
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.
  • 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes).
  • 2 Cor 2:15 : 15 For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction;
  • 2 Cor 2:17 : 17 For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.

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    11And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:

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    9Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,

  • 2 Pet 2:2-3
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    2And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.

    3And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

  • 2 Thess 2:3
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    3Give no belief to false words: because there will first be a falling away from the faith, and the revelation of the man of sin, the son of destruction,

  • Rom 1:18
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    18For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing;

  • 2 Tim 2:25-26
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    25Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,

    26And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.

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    3But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:

    4Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

  • Rom 2:8
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    8But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

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    6Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

  • 2 Pet 2:18
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    18For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

  • 2 Tim 3:5-8
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    5Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

    6For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

    7Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.

    8And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false.

  • Eph 4:18-19
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    18Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

    19Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

  • 2 Thess 1:8-9
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    8To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:

    9Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

  • 2 John 1:7-8
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    7Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.

    8Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.

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    19And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

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    24For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

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    20For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.

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    12Those by the side of the road are those who have given hearing; then the Evil One comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not have faith and get salvation.

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    12And because wrongdoing will be increased, the love of most people will become cold.

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    13For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

    14Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

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    3Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • 2 Tim 3:13
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    13Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

  • Jer 9:5-6
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    5Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

    6There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;

  • Mark 4:12
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    12So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.

  • 2 Cor 11:13
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    13For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.

  • 1 Tim 2:4
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    4Whose desire is that all men may have salvation and come to the knowledge of what is true.

  • 1 John 2:21
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    21I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true.

  • John 16:9
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    9Of sin, because they have not faith in me;

  • 1 Cor 1:18
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    18For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.

  • 2 Pet 3:17
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    17For this reason, my loved ones, having knowledge of these things before they take place, take care that you are not turned away by the error of the uncontrolled, so falling from your true faith.

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    26I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way.

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    8When my soul in me was overcome, I kept the memory of the Lord: and my prayer came in to you, into your holy Temple.