¹⁹ So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house, and drank water.

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.

¹⁹ But Peter and John answered and said to them, ^(A)“Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.

⁹ For so it was commanded me by the word of the Lord, saying, ^(A)‘You shall not eat bread, nor drink water, nor return by the same way you came.’ ”

²⁰ But ^(A)the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or ^(B)who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’

⁵ But ^(A)that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken in order to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of bondage, to entice you from the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. ^(B)So you shall ^[a]put away the evil from your midst.

³ 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.

Punishment of Apostates

13 “If there arises among you a prophet or a ^(A)dreamer of dreams, ^(B)and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

⁶ So when the woman ^(A)saw that the tree was good for food, that it was ^[a]pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit ^(B)and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.