13 For such (A)are false apostles, (B)deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

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13 For such people are false apostles,(A) deceitful(B) workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.(C)

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(A)“I know your works, your labor, your [a]patience, and that you cannot [b]bear those who are evil. And (B)you have tested those (C)who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars;

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  1. Revelation 2:2 perseverance
  2. Revelation 2:2 endure

I know your deeds,(A) your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested(B) those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.(C)

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(A)Beware of dogs, beware of (B)evil workers, (C)beware of the mutilation!

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Watch out for those dogs,(A) those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.

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(A)which is not another; but there are some (B)who trouble you and want to (C)pervert[a] the gospel of Christ.

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  1. Galatians 1:7 distort

which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion(A) and are trying to pervert(B) the gospel of Christ.

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Love for God and One Another

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but (A)test the spirits, whether they are of God; because (B)many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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On Denying the Incarnation

Dear friends,(A) do not believe every spirit,(B) but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.(C)

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And this occurred because of (A)false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our (B)liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, (C)that they might bring us into bondage),

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This matter arose because some false believers(A) had infiltrated our ranks to spy on(B) the freedom(C) we have in Christ Jesus and to make us slaves.

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30 Also (A)from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking [a]perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

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  1. Acts 20:30 misleading

30 Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples(A) after them.

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20 (A)Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and (B)those who worshiped his image. (C)These two were cast alive into the lake of fire (D)burning with brimstone.

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20 But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet(A) who had performed the signs(B) on its behalf.(C) With these signs he had deluded(D) those who had received the mark of the beast(E) and worshiped its image.(F) The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake(G) of burning sulfur.(H)

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Beware lest anyone [a]cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to (A)the tradition of men, according to the (B)basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

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  1. Colossians 2:8 Lit. plunder you or take you captive

See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy,(A) which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces[a] of this world(B) rather than on Christ.

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  1. Colossians 2:8 Or the basic principles; also in verse 20

Now this I say (A)lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words.

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I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments.(A)

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14 that we should no longer be (A)children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of (B)deceitful plotting,

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14 Then we will no longer be infants,(A) tossed back and forth by the waves,(B) and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.(C)

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15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, (A)whose end will be according to their works.

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15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.(A)

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20 Nevertheless I have [a]a few things against you, because you allow [b]that woman (A)Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, [c]to teach and seduce My servants (B)to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

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  1. Revelation 2:20 NU, M against you that you tolerate
  2. Revelation 2:20 M your wife Jezebel
  3. Revelation 2:20 NU, M and teaches and seduces

20 Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel,(A) who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.(B)

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