33 Do not be deceived: (A)“Evil company corrupts good habits.”

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33 Do not be misled:(A) “Bad company corrupts good character.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:33 From the Greek poet Menander

20 He who walks with wise men will be wise,
But the companion of fools will be destroyed.

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20 Walk with the wise and become wise,
    for a companion of fools suffers harm.(A)

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And Jesus answered and said to them: (A)“Take heed that no one deceives you.

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Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you.(A)

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(A)Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that (B)a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

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Your boasting is not good.(A) Don’t you know that a little yeast(B) leavens the whole batch of dough?(C)

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Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

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Let no one deceive you(A) with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath(B) comes on those who are disobedient.(C)

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Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. (A)Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [a]homosexuals, nor [b]sodomites,

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 catamites, those submitting to homosexuals
  2. 1 Corinthians 6:9 male homosexuals

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God?(A) Do not be deceived:(B) Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers(C) nor men who have sex with men[a](D)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 The words men who have sex with men translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.

16 But shun profane and [a]idle babblings, for they will [b]increase to more ungodliness. 17 And their message will spread like cancer. (A)Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, 18 who have strayed concerning the truth, (B)saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some.

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  1. 2 Timothy 2:16 empty chatter
  2. 2 Timothy 2:16 lead

16 Avoid godless chatter,(A) because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly. 17 Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus(B) and Philetus, 18 who have departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place,(C) and they destroy the faith of some.(D)

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Forsake foolishness and live,
And go in the way of understanding.

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Leave your simple ways and you will live;(A)
    walk in the way of insight.”(B)

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Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for (A)whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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Do not be deceived:(A) God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.(B)

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24 For (A)false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, (B)if possible, even the elect.

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24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders(A) to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

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And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

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Many will follow their depraved conduct(A) and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.

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Deceptions of False Teachers

18 For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who [a]have actually escaped from those who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of [b]corruption; (A)for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into [c]bondage. 20 For if, after they (B)have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are (C)again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.

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  1. 2 Peter 2:18 NU are barely escaping
  2. 2 Peter 2:19 depravity
  3. 2 Peter 2:19 slavery

18 For they mouth empty, boastful words(A) and, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh, they entice people who are just escaping(B) from those who live in error. 19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”(C) 20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing(D) our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ(E) and are again entangled in it and are overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.(F)

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15 looking carefully lest anyone (A)fall short of the grace of God; lest any (B)root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;

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15 See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God(A) and that no bitter root(B) grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

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