1 Timothy 1:7
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7 desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.
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2 Peter 2:12
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Depravity of False Teachers
12 But these, (A)like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,
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Romans 1:22
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22 (A)Professing to be wise, they became fools,
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1 Timothy 6:4
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4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,
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Titus 1:10-11
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The Elders’ Task
10 For there are many insubordinate, both idle (A)talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, (B)for the sake of dishonest gain.
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2 Timothy 3:7
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7 always learning and never able (A)to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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Romans 2:19-21
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19 and (A)are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, (B)having the form of knowledge and truth in the law. 21 (C)You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?
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Galatians 5:3-4
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3 And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised (A)that he is [a]a debtor to keep the whole law. 4 (B)You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; (C)you have fallen from grace.
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- Galatians 5:3 obligated
Galatians 4:21
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Two Covenants(A)
21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
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Galatians 3:5
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5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?—
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Galatians 3:2
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2 This only I want to learn from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, (A)or by the hearing of faith?
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John 9:40-41
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40 Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, (A)and said to Him, “Are we blind also?”
41 Jesus said to them, (B)“If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
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John 3:9-10
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9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, (A)“How can these things be?”
10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?
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Matthew 23:16-24
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16 “Woe to you, (A)blind guides, who say, (B)‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.’ 17 Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold (C)or the temple that [a]sanctifies the gold? 18 And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obliged to perform it.’ 19 Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift (D)or the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 Therefore he who [b]swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it. 21 He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by (E)Him who [c]dwells in it. 22 And he who swears by heaven, swears by (F)the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! (G)For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and (H)have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. 24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
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- Matthew 23:17 NU sanctified
- Matthew 23:20 Swears an oath
- Matthew 23:21 M dwelt
Matthew 15:14
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14 Let them alone. (A)They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”
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Jeremiah 8:8-9
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8 “How can you say, ‘We are wise,
(A)And the law of the Lord is with us’?
Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.
9 (B)The wise men are ashamed,
They are dismayed and taken.
Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord;
So (C)what wisdom do they have?
Isaiah 29:13-14
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13 Therefore the Lord said:
(A)“Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths
And honor Me (B)with their lips,
But have removed their hearts far from Me,
And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men,
14 (C)Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work
Among this people,
A marvelous work and a wonder;
(D)For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.”
Acts 15:1
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Conflict over Circumcision
15 And (A)certain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, (B)“Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
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Matthew 21:27
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27 So they answered Jesus and said, “We do not know.”
And He said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.
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