2 Thessalonians 2:11 BSB

2 Thessalonians 2:11

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie:

KJV

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And for this cause - Because they choose error, or their hearts love that more than they do truth. The original reason then of their embracing and adhering to the system was not an arbitrary decree on the part of God, but that they did not love the truth. Hence, he gave them up to this system of error. If a man strongly prefers error to truth, and sin to holiness, it is not wrong to allow him freely to evince his own preference.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
διὰ	dia	because of	G1223 →
τοῦτο	touto	this	G3778 →
πέμπει	pempei	sends	G3992 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	to them	G846 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
θεὸς	theos	God	G2316 →
ἐνέργειαν	energeian	a powerful	G1753 →
πλάνης	planēs	delusion	G4106 →
εἰς	eis	so	G1519 →
τὸ	to	that	G3588 →
πιστεῦσαι	pisteusai	to believe	G4100 →
αὐτοὺς	autous	they	G846 →
τῷ	tō	what	G3588 →
ψεύδει,	pseudei	[is] false,	G5579 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Timothy 4:1
Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
leads to
- 2 Timothy 3:1–9
  But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.
- 2 Peter 2:1
  Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on…
- 2 Corinthians 11:13–15
  For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
- Jude 1:18
  when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
- 2 Thessalonians 2:3–12
  Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.
Through
Romans 1:28
Furthermore, 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.
leads to
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10–12
  and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
- Titus 1:16
  They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
- Romans 1:21
  For 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.