12That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. …
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-12)In these words the apostle confutes the error against which he had cautioned them, and gives the reasons why they should not expect the coming of Christ as just at hand. There were several events previous to the second coming of Christ; in particular, he tells them there would be, I. A general apostasy, there would come a falling away first , 2 Thess. 2:3. By this apostasy we are not to understand…
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