and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Receive not the love of the truth -- They didn’t have a love for the truth, and because they were antagonistic to the truth they were eager and easy to be deceived by something false, not true. I think of how many who don’t want to believe in God, have accepted atheistic evolution. cf. 2 Peter 3:5.