2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
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Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We have here a prophecy of the apostasy of the latter times, which he had spoken of as a thing expected and taken for granted among Christians, 2 Thess. 2:1-17. I. In the close of the foregoing chapter, we had the mystery of godliness summed up; and therefore very fitly, in the beginning of this chapter, we have the mystery of iniquity summed up: The Spirit speaks expressly that in the latter time…
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