19 No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval.(A)

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19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

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19 They went out from us,(A) but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.(B)

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19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

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10 Warn a divisive person once, and then warn them a second time. After that, have nothing to do with them.(A)

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10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;

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30 Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples(A) after them.

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30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

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Sin, Faith, Duty

17 Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to stumble(A) are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come.(B)

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17 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

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you must not listen to the words of that prophet(A) or dreamer.(B) The Lord your God is testing(C) you to find out whether you love(D) him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come!(A)

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Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

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False Teachers and Their Destruction

But there were also false prophets(A) among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you.(B) They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord(C) who bought them(D)—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct(E) and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.

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But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

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The Spirit(A) clearly says that in later times(B) some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits(C) and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.(D)

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Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

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20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions

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20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

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Examine yourselves(A) to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves.(B) Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you(C)—unless, of course, you fail the test? And I trust that you will discover that we have not failed the test. Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong—not so that people will see that we have stood the test but so that you will do what is right even though we may seem to have failed.

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Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

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22 But we want to hear what your views are, for we know that people everywhere are talking against this sect.”(A)

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22 But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.

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They have known me for a long time(A) and can testify, if they are willing, that I conformed to the strictest sect(B) of our religion, living as a Pharisee.(C)

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Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

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