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With all deceit of unrighteousness (en pasēi apatēi adikias). This pastmaster of trickery will have at his command all the energy and skill of Satan to mislead and deceive. How many illustrations lie along the pathway of Christian history.
For them that are perishing (tois apollumenois). Dative case of personal interest. Note this very phrase in 2Co 2:15; 2Co 4:3. Present middle participle of appollumi, to destroy, the dreadful process goes on.
Because (anth' hon). In return for which things (anti and the genitive of the relative pronoun). Same idiom in Luk 1:20; Luk 12:3; Luk 19:44; Act 12:23 and very common in the lxx.
The love of the truth (tēn agapēn tēs alētheias). That is the gospel in contrast with lying and deceit.
That they might be saved (eis to sōthēnai autous). First aorist passive infinitive of sōzō with eis to, again, epexegetic purpose of the truth if they had heeded it.