2 Thessalonians 2:12 BSB

2 Thessalonians 2:12

in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

KJV

That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

That they all may be condemned - That is, the consequence of which will be, that they all will be condemned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness - That is, who believed not the truth, because they loved sin.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἵνα	ina	in order that	G2443 →
κριθῶσιν	krithōsin	may be judged	G2919 →
πάντες	pantes	all	G3956 →
οἱ	hoi	those	G3588 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
πιστεύσαντες	pisteusantes	having believed	G4100 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
ἀληθείᾳ	alētheia	truth	G225 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
εὐδοκήσαντες	eudokēsantes	having delighted	G2106 →
τῇ	tēa	<the>	G3588 →
ἀδικίᾳ.¶	adikia	in unrighteousness.	G93 →

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

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
Mark 16:16
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
leads to
- John 11:25–26
  Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
- John 3:36
  Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
- Romans 10:9–14
  that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
- John 3:18–19
  Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
- John 3:15–16
  that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
Through
1 Thessalonians 5:9
For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 1:10
  and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.
- 1 Peter 2:10
  Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
Through
Romans 1:32
Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
leads to
- Romans 2:1–5
  You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.