19 For (A)there must also be factions among you, (B)that those who are approved may be [a]recognized among you.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 11:19 Lit. manifest, evident

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 (A)They went out from us, but they were not of us; for (B)if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out (C)that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

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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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10 (A)Reject a divisive man after the first and second [a]admonition,

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  1. Titus 3:10 warning

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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30 Also (A)from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking [a]perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

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  1. Acts 20:30 misleading

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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Jesus Warns of Offenses(A)

17 Then He said to the disciples, (B)“It is impossible that no [a]offenses should come, but (C)woe to him through whom they do come!

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  1. Luke 17:1 stumbling blocks

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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you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the Lord your God (A)is testing you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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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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Woe to the world because of [a]offenses! For (A)offenses must come, but (B)woe to that man by whom the offense comes!

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  1. Matthew 18:7 enticements to sin

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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Destructive Doctrines

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be (A)false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

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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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The Great Apostasy

Now the Spirit [a]expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed (A)to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, (B)speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience (C)seared with a hot iron,

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  1. 1 Timothy 4:1 explicitly

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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20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

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

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Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, (A)that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you [a]are (B)disqualified. But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified.

Paul Prefers Gentleness

Now [b]I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though (C)we may seem disqualified.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 13:5 do not stand the test
  2. 2 Corinthians 13:7 NU we

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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22 But we desire to hear from you what you think; for concerning this sect, we know that (A)it is spoken against everywhere.”

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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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They knew me from the first, if they were willing to testify, that according to (A)the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

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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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