What Does 2 Thessalonians 2:10 Mean in the King James?
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse makes deliverance hinge on receiving love for truth, not simply being exposed to true words.
THE MEANING
Deception can make unrighteousness persuasive among those perishing. The stated fracture is a refusal to welcome love for truth; the verse describes more than a failure to hear correct information. Deliverance is the outcome they might enter.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The false belief this undoes is that hearing true words is the same as receiving a love for truth; exposure alone is not the welcome described here.
THE ROOT
ἐδέξαντο
edexanto
GROWS FROM
δέχομαι (dechomai), stem δεχ-
To receive or welcome.
“received” in this verse is edexanto. The verb’s sense of welcoming sharpens the phrase: what is refused is the love of truth, not merely a fact that failed to arrive. The fracture lies in not welcoming love for what is real.
ALSO GROWS
apodechomai: Accept, receive, welcome.
ἀποδέχομαι
This compound keeps the sense of actively accepting what is offered.
paradechomai: Receive, accept, acknowledge.
παραδέχομαι
This branch shows reception as allowing something to be admitted and accepted.
σωθῆναι
sōthēnai
GROWS FROM
σῴζω
sōzō
To rescue, deliver, bring through to safety.
“saved” in this verse is sōthēnai. The word carries the sense of being brought out of danger. Here, deliverance is joined to receiving love for truth.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēr: Deliverer, rescuer.
σωτήρ
The related noun names the one who brings someone through to safety.
sōtēria: Deliverance, rescue.
σωτηρία
This noun names the rescue that the verse says they might enter.
ἀληθείας
alētheias
GROWS FROM
ἀλήθεια (alētheia), stem ἀληθε-
Truth, what is true and real.
Truth here is something that can be loved and received, not only assessed as information. Its word family keeps truth connected to what is true and to speaking truth.
ALSO GROWS
alēthēs: True, truthful.
ἀληθής
The related adjective names what accords with truth.
alētheuō: Speak truth, act truthfully.
ἀληθεύω
This branch connects truth with how it is expressed in speech and action.
THE PATTERN
Truth that is treasured and welcomed can shape whether a person moves toward deliverance or remains in deception.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.THE THREAD
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.James uses the same Greek receive verb, δέχομαι (dechomai), and the same deliver verb, σῴζω (sōzō). Their pairing makes visible the connection here between welcoming truth and being brought through to deliverance.
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