2 Thessalonians 2:10

Through every kind of wicked deception he leads astray those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth that would have saved them. People fall not by ignorance alone but by rejecting the saving truth.

Cross-references · 27

• 1 Cor 1:18For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.
• Prov 1:7The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
• 2 Cor 4:2–3But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
• 2 Pet 2:12But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
• John 8:45–47But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
• Rom 16:18For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
• 1 Cor 16:22If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come, Lord!
• Eph 4:14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
• Prov 8:17I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
• 2 Cor 11:15It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
• 2 Cor 2:17For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
• Rom 2:7–8to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
• Prov 2:1–6My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
• Prov 4:5–6Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
• 2 Cor 2:15For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;
• 1 Tim 2:4who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
• John 5:34But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
• John 3:19–21This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
• John 3:17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
• Rom 10:1Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
• Matt 13:11He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
• Heb 3:13but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
• 2 Pet 2:18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
• 2 Cor 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
• Rom 6:17But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.
• Jas 1:16–18Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.
• 1 Th 2:16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

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