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

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

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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(A) with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath(B) comes on those who are disobedient.(C)

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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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Footnotes

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

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

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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 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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All inhabitants of the earth(A) will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life,(B) the Lamb(C) who was slain from the creation of the world.[a](D)

Whoever has ears, let them hear.(E)

10 “If anyone is to go into captivity,
    into captivity they will go.
If anyone is to be killed[b] with the sword,
    with the sword they will be killed.”[c](F)

This calls for patient endurance and faithfulness(G) on the part of God’s people.(H)

The Beast out of the Earth

11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth.(I) It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.(J) 12 It exercised all the authority(K) of the first beast on its behalf,(L) and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast,(M) whose fatal wound had been healed.(N) 13 And it performed great signs,(O) even causing fire to come down from heaven(P) to the earth in full view of the people. 14 Because of the signs(Q) it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived(R) the inhabitants of the earth.(S) It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.(T)

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 13:8 Or written from the creation of the world in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was slain
  2. Revelation 13:10 Some manuscripts anyone kills
  3. Revelation 13:10 Jer. 15:2

The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent(A) called the devil,(B) or Satan,(C) who leads the whole world astray.(D) He was hurled to the earth,(E) and his angels with him.

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11 and many false prophets(A) will appear and deceive many people.(B)

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10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing.(A) They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(B)

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