2 Thessalonians 2:12

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in order that all who did not believe the truth but delighted in wickedness might be judged.

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  • Rom 1:32 : 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things but also approve of those who practice them.
  • Rom 2:8 : 8 But to those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and anger.
  • Rom 8:7-8 : 7 Because the mindset of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  • Rom 12:9 : 9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
  • 1 Thess 5:9 : 9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
  • 2 Pet 2:13-15 : 13 They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to indulge in carousing during the day. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you. 14 They have eyes full of adultery, never ceasing from sin. They entice unstable souls and have hearts trained in greed. They are accursed children. 15 They have abandoned the straight way and gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
  • Deut 32:35 : 35 Vengeance belongs to Me; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip, for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is quickly approaching.
  • Ps 11:5 : 5 The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked—those who love violence—he hates with a passion.
  • Ps 50:16-21 : 16 But to the wicked God says: 'What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips? 17 For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. 18 When you see a thief, you join him, and you associate with adulterers. 19 You let your mouth speak evil, and your tongue devises deceit. 20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son. 21 These things you have done, and I kept silent; you thought I was like you. But I will rebuke you and lay the case before your eyes.
  • Ps 52:3-4 : 3 Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all day long. 4 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, you worker of deceit.
  • Hos 7:3 : 3 They please the king with their evil and the princes with their lies.
  • Mic 3:2 : 2 You who hate good and love evil; you tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones.
  • Mark 14:11 : 11 When they heard this, they were glad and promised to give him money. So he began looking for an opportunity to betray him.
  • Mark 16:16 : 16 'Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.'
  • John 3:19-21 : 19 This is the verdict: The light has come into the world, but people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly seen that their deeds have been done in God.
  • John 3:36 : 36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. But the one who disobeys the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.
  • Jude 1:4-5 : 4 For certain people have secretly slipped in among you—those who were written about long ago as being destined for this condemnation. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into a license for immorality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. 5 Now I want to remind you, although you already know all this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

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  • 2 Thess 2:9-11
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    9The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with the workings of Satan, with all kinds of power, false signs, and wonders,

    10and with every kind of deceit targeting those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

    11For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion, so that they will believe the lie,

  • Rom 2:8-9
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    8But to those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and anger.

    9There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does what is evil, first for the Jew, then also for the Gentile.

  • Rom 1:18
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    18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness.

  • Rom 1:31-32
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    31they are senseless, faithless, unloving, unforgiving, and unmerciful.

    32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things but also approve of those who practice them.

  • Rom 2:2-3
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    2We know that God's judgment is based on truth against those who practice such things.

    3Do you think this, O person who judges those who practice such things, yet does the same yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?

  • 2 Thess 2:13
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    13But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits for salvation through the sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth.

  • 2 Pet 2:2-4
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    2Many will follow their destructive ways, and because of them, the way of truth will be blasphemed.

    3In their greed, they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.

    4For if God did not spare the angels who sinned but cast them into hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment,

  • 2 Thess 1:8-9
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    8In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

    9They will be punished with eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might.

  • Jude 1:4-5
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    4For certain people have secretly slipped in among you—those who were written about long ago as being destined for this condemnation. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into a license for immorality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

    5Now I want to remind you, although you already know all this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

  • Jude 1:15
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    15to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

  • Rom 1:24-26
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    24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.

    25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is forever praised. Amen.

    26For this reason, God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature.

  • 2 Pet 2:13
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    13They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to indulge in carousing during the day. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.

  • Rom 1:28
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    28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

  • John 3:18-19
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    18Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is already condemned, because they have not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

    19This is the verdict: The light has come into the world, but people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

  • Rom 2:5
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    5But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

  • Rom 3:7-8
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    7If the truth of God has increased His glory through my falsehood, why am I still judged as a sinner?

    8Why not say—as some slanderously claim we say—"Let us do evil so that good may result"? Their condemnation is just.

  • Prov 2:14
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    14from those who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perversity of wickedness.

  • 2 Thess 1:5
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    5This is evidence of God's righteous judgment, so that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.

  • 1 Tim 2:4
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    4who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

  • 1 Thess 2:15
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    15They killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and they drove us out. They do not please God and are hostile to everyone.

  • 1 Tim 5:12
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    12and they bring judgment on themselves for breaking their first pledge.

  • Rom 11:32
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    32For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that He may have mercy on them all.

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

  • 2 Pet 2:9
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    9then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

  • Titus 1:16
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    16They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

  • 1 John 2:21
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    21I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

  • 2 Tim 3:7-8
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    7Always learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

    8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth. They are corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.

  • Rom 2:12
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    12For all who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

  • Titus 2:12
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    12It teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

  • 2 Thess 2:3
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    3Let no one deceive you in any way. That day will not come unless the rebellion takes place first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed—the son of destruction.

  • 2 Tim 3:4
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    4They will be traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

  • Col 3:6
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    6Because of these things, the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

  • 2 Pet 2:21
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    21For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

  • 2 Cor 13:8
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    8For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10the sexually immoral, those who practice homosexuality, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

  • 2 John 1:7
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    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world—those who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. Such a one is the deceiver and the antichrist.