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2 Thessalonians 2:11 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: "
2 Thessalonians 2:11
Verse in Context
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Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath ➔ from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
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2 Thessalonians 2:1
"Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,"
2 Thessalonians 2:2
"That ye be ➔ not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand."
2 Thessalonians 2:3
"Let ➔ no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;"
2 Thessalonians 2:4
"Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God."
2 Thessalonians 2:5
"Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?"
2 Thessalonians 2:6
"And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time."
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