2 Thessalonians 2:11

Because they rejected the truth, God sends a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie. Persistent unbelief meets a righteous judicial hardening from God.

Cross-references · 18

• Rom 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
• John 12:39–43For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says:
• 1 Tim 4:1Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
• Matt 24:11and many false prophets will arise and mislead many.
• Ezek 21:29while they offer false visions for you and lying divinations about you—to be placed on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.
• Ps 81:11–12But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
• Rom 1:21–25For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
• 1 Th 2:3For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.
• Ps 109:17The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him.
• Matt 24:5For many will come in My name, claiming, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.
• Ezek 14:9But if the prophet is enticed to speak a message, then it was I the LORD who enticed him, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel.
• Isa 66:4So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
• Jer 27:10For they prophesy to you a lie that will serve to remove you from your land; I will banish you and you will perish.
• Isa 29:9–14Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.
• Isa 6:9–10And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
• 1 Kgs 22:18–22Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Did I not tell you that he never prophesies good for me, but only bad?”
• Isa 44:20He feeds on ashes. His deluded heart has led him astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”
• 2 Chr 18:18–22Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing on His right and on His left.

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