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 preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
• Prov 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• 2 Cor 4:2–3But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
• 2 Pet 2:12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
• John 8:45–47And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
• Rom 16:18For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
• 1 Cor 16:22If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
• Eph 4:14That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
• Prov 8:17I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
• 2 Cor 11:15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
• 2 Cor 2:17For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
• Rom 2:7–8To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:
• Prov 2:1–6My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
• Prov 4:5–6Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
• 2 Cor 2:15For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
• 1 Tim 2:4Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
• John 5:34But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.
• John 3:19–21And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
• John 3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
• Rom 10:1Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
• Matt 13:11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
• Heb 3:13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
• 2 Pet 2:18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
• 2 Cor 11:13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
• Rom 6:17But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.
• Jas 1:16–18Do not err, my beloved brethren.
• 1 Th 2:16Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

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