33 (A)Do not be deceived: (B)“Bad company ruins good morals.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:33 Probably from Menander's comedy Thais

20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
    but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

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

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

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Leave (A)your simple ways,[a] and (B)live,
    (C)and walk in the way of insight.”

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 9:6 Or Leave the company of the simple

(A)Let no one (B)deceive you with empty words, for because of these things (C)the wrath of God comes upon (D)the sons of disobedience.

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(A)Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for (B)whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

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16 But (A)avoid (B)irreverent babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, 17 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are (C)Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who have swerved from the truth, (D)saying that the resurrection has already happened. They are upsetting the faith of some.

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Or do you not know that the unrighteous[a] will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: (A)neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 Or wrongdoers
  2. 1 Corinthians 6:9 The two Greek terms translated by this phrase refer to the passive and active partners in consensual homosexual acts

And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth (A)will be blasphemed.

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24 For (A)false christs and (B)false prophets will arise and (C)perform great signs and wonders, (D)so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

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15 See to it that no one (A)fails to obtain the grace of God; that no (B)“root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

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18 For, (A)speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely (B)escaping from those who live in error. 19 They promise them (C)freedom, (D)but they themselves are slaves[a] of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. 20 For if, (E)after they have escaped the defilements of the world (F)through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, (G)the last state has become worse for them than the first.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 2:19 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

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

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

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10 and with all wicked deception for (A)those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

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and all (A)who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in (B)the book of life of (C)the Lamb (D)who was slain. (E)If anyone has an ear, let him hear:

10 (F)If anyone is to be taken captive,
    to captivity he goes;
(G)if anyone is to be slain with the sword,
    with the sword must he be slain.

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

The Second Beast

11 Then (I)I saw another beast rising 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 in its presence,[a] and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, (J)whose mortal wound was healed. 13 (K)It performs great signs, even (L)making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people, 14 and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of[b] the beast (M)it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast (N)that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 13:12 Or on its behalf
  2. Revelation 13:14 Or on behalf of

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