always learning and never able (A)to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.(A)

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(A)For the time will come when they will not endure (B)sound doctrine, (C)but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and (D)be turned aside to fables.

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For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.(A) Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.(B) They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.(C)

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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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11 of whom (A)we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become (B)dull of hearing.

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Warning Against Falling Away(A)

11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.

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25 (A)in humility correcting those who are in opposition, (B)if God perhaps will grant them repentance, (C)so that they may know the truth,

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25 Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth,(A)

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(A)who desires all men to be saved (B)and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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who wants(A) all people(B) to be saved(C) and to come to a knowledge of the truth.(D)

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Sectarianism Is Carnal

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to (A)babes in Christ. I fed you with (B)milk and not with solid food; (C)for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and [a]behaving like mere men? For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 3:3 Lit. walking according to man

The Church and Its Leaders

Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit(A) but as people who are still worldly(B)—mere infants(C) in Christ. I gave you milk, not solid food,(D) for you were not yet ready for it.(E) Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling(F) among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,”(G) are you not mere human beings?

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44 (A)How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek (B)the honor that comes from the only God?

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44 How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God[a]?(A)

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  1. John 5:44 Some early manuscripts the Only One

A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it,
But (A)knowledge is easy to him who understands.

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The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none,
    but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.(A)

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20 For (A)everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been (B)done in God.”

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20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.(A) 21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

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11 He answered and said to them, “Because (A)it has been given to you to know the [a]mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

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  1. Matthew 13:11 secret or hidden truths

11 He replied, “Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven(A) has been given to you,(B) but not to them.

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10 (A)Who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things;
(B)Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
11 Get out of the way,
Turn aside from the path,
Cause the Holy One of Israel
To cease from before us.”

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10 They say to the seers,(A)
    “See no more visions(B)!”
and to the prophets,
    “Give us no more visions of what is right!
Tell us pleasant things,(C)
    prophesy illusions.(D)
11 Leave this way,(E)
    get off this path,
and stop confronting(F) us
    with the Holy One(G) of Israel!”

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Walk in the Light

42 Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in Him, but (A)because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue; 43 (B)for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

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42 Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him.(A) But because of the Pharisees(B) they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;(C) 43 for they loved human praise(D) more than praise from God.(E)

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