Deceiving Others and Being Deceived in Turn
T. Hall, B. D. 2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. They cozen others, and the devil cozens them, leading them into far greater errors; and so they shall be punished on a double account. 1. Because they err themselves and resist the truth. 2. Because they have drawn others into error. The participle of the present tense notes their assiduity and constancy; they make it their trade to deceive others: they are still deceiving one or other with their smooth, flattering language. As God loves to employ good men for the conversion of others (not that He needs the help of man, but), for the exercising of the graces of His servants, and for the greater manifestation of His own glory, so the devil, who is God's ape, loves to deceive men by men. He hath his agents and emissaries everywhere. As good men delight in converting others, so wicked men delight in perverting others: as those would not go to heaven alone, so these would not go to hell alone: and therefore they labour to make others twofold more the children of the devil than themselves. (T. Hall, B. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. WEB: But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.