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.
that they might be saved: The words "be saved" (sozo) refer "to save in the technical biblical sense; negatively, to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment, Joel 2:32; to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance" (Thayer 610-1-4982).