that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Parallel translations
- KJV That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
- BSB in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.
- NKJV that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
- NASB in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.
- NLT Then they will be condemned for enjoying evil rather than believing the truth.
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- Rom 1:32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
- Rom 8:7–8because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.
- Mark 16:16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
- Rom 2:8but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
- Hos 7:3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
- 1 Th 5:9For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- 2 Pet 2:13–15receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
- Ps 11:5Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.
- John 3:36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
- Jude 1:4–5For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
- Mark 14:11They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.
- 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.
- Rom 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
- Mic 3:2You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
- Deut 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
- 3 Jn 1:11Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
- Ps 50:16–21But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
- Ps 52:3–4You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.
- 2 Pet 2:3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
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