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33 Do not be deceived:

“Bad company ruins good morals.”

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20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
    but the companion of fools suffers harm.(A)

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Jesus answered them, “Beware that no one leads you astray.(A)

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Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all of the dough?(A)

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Lay aside immaturity and live,
    and walk in the way of insight.”(A)

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Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.[a](A)

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  1. 5.6 Gk sons of disobedience

16 Avoid profane chatter, for it will lead people[a] into more and more impiety,(A) 17 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,(B) 18 who have swerved from the truth, saying resurrection[b] has already occurred. They are upsetting the faith of some.(C)

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  1. 2.16 Gk for they will advance
  2. 2.18 Other ancient authorities read the resurrection

Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow.(A)

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Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes,[a] men who engage in illicit sex,[b](A)

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  1. 6.9 Meaning of Gk uncertain
  2. 6.9 Meaning of Gk uncertain

24 For false messiahs[a] and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.(A)

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  1. 24.24 Or christs

Even so, many will follow their debaucheries, and because of these teachers[a] the way of truth will be maligned.

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  1. 2.2 Gk because of them

18 For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with debased[a] desires of the flesh they entice people who have just[b] escaped from those who live in error. 19 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for people are slaves to whatever masters them.(A) 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the[c] Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first.(B)

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  1. 2.18 Or debauched
  2. 2.18 Other ancient authorities read actually
  3. 2.20 Other ancient authorities read our

15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God, that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble and through it many become defiled.(A)

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11 And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.(A)

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The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.(A)

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10 and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(A)

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and all the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered.[a](A)

Let anyone who has an ear listen:

10 If you are to be taken captive,
    into captivity you go;
if you kill with the sword,
    with the sword you must be killed.

Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.(B)

The Second Beast

11 Then I saw another beast that rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb, and it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and it makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound[b] had been healed. 13 It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in the sight of all,(C) 14 and by the signs that it is allowed to perform on behalf of the beast it deceives the inhabitants of earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that had been wounded by the sword[c] and yet lived,(D)

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  1. 13.8 Or written in the book of life of the Lamb that was slaughtered from the foundation of the world
  2. 13.12 Gk whose plague of its death
  3. 13.14 Or that had received the plague of the sword