2 Corinthians 2:17
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17 For we are not, as [a]so many, (A)peddling[b] the word of God; but as (B)of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.
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- 2 Corinthians 2:17 M the rest
- 2 Corinthians 2:17 adulterating for gain
2 Corinthians 4:2
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2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor [a]handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth (A)commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
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- 2 Corinthians 4:2 adulterating the word of God
2 Corinthians 1:12
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Paul’s Sincerity
12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in [a]simplicity and (A)godly sincerity, (B)not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.
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- 2 Corinthians 1:12 The opposite of duplicity
2 Peter 2:1-3
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Destructive Doctrines
2 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be (A)false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction [a]does not slumber.
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- 2 Peter 2:3 M will not
2 Timothy 4:3-4
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3 (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; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and (D)be turned aside to fables.
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1 Timothy 4:1-3
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The Great Apostasy
4 Now the Spirit [a]expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed (A)to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 (B)speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience (C)seared with a hot iron, 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
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- 1 Timothy 4:1 explicitly
Revelation 2:20
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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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- Revelation 2:20 NU, M against you that you tolerate
- Revelation 2:20 M your wife Jezebel
- Revelation 2:20 NU, M and teaches and seduces
Revelation 2:14-15
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14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of (A)Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, (B)to eat things sacrificed to idols, (C)and to commit sexual immorality. 15 Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, [a]which thing I hate.
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- Revelation 2:15 NU, M likewise.
Jude 4
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4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord [a]God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
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- Jude 1:4 NU omits God
Titus 1:11
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11 whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole households, teaching things which they ought not, (A)for the sake of dishonest gain.
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1 Corinthians 5:8
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8 Therefore (A)let us keep the feast, (B)not with old leaven, nor (C)with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
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Matthew 24:24
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24 For (A)false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, (B)if possible, even the elect.
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Jeremiah 23:27-32
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27 who try to make My people forget My name by their dreams which everyone tells his neighbor, (A)as their fathers forgot My name for Baal.
28 “The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream;
And he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully.
What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the Lord.
29 “Is not My word like a (B)fire?” says the Lord,
“And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
30 “Therefore behold, (C)I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who steal My words every one from his neighbor. 31 Behold, I am (D)against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He says.’ 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the Lord, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their (E)lies and by (F)their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not (G)profit this people at all,” says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 5:31
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31 The prophets prophesy (A)falsely,
And the priests rule by their own power;
And My people (B)love to have it so.
But what will you do in the end?
1 John 4:1
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Love for God and One Another
4 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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1 Timothy 1:19-20
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19 having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, 20 of whom are (A)Hymenaeus and (B)Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to (C)blaspheme.
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Acts 20:20
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20 how (A)I kept back nothing that was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and taught you publicly and from house to house,
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Revelation 19:20
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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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Revelation 12:9
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9 So (A)the great dragon was cast out, (B)that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, (C)who deceives the whole world; (D)he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
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2 John 7-11
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Beware of Antichrist Deceivers
7 For (A)many deceivers have gone out into the world (B)who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. (C)This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8 (D)Look to yourselves, (E)that [a]we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.
9 (F)Whoever [b]transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and (G)does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; 11 for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.
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- 2 John 1:8 NU you
- 2 John 1:9 NU goes ahead
2 Corinthians 11:13-15
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13 For such (A)are false apostles, (B)deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into (C)an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, (D)whose end will be according to their works.
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Acts 20:27
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27 For I have not [a]shunned to declare to you (A)the whole counsel of God.
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- Acts 20:27 avoided declaring
Hebrews 11:27
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27 By faith (A)he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.
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2 Timothy 2:6-18
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6 The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops. 7 Consider what I say, and [a]may the Lord (A)give you understanding in all things.
8 Remember that Jesus Christ, (B)of the seed of David, (C)was raised from the dead (D)according to my gospel, 9 (E)for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, (F)even to the point of chains; (G)but the word of God is not chained. 10 Therefore (H)I endure all things for the sake of the [b]elect, (I)that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
11 This is a faithful saying:
For (J)if we died with Him,
We shall also live with Him.
12 (K)If we endure,
We shall also reign with Him.
(L)If we deny Him,
He also will deny us.
13 If we are faithless,
He remains faithful;
He (M)cannot deny Himself.
Approved and Disapproved Workers
14 Remind them of these things, (N)charging them before the Lord not to [c]strive about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers. 15 (O)Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 16 But shun profane and [d]idle babblings, for they will [e]increase to more ungodliness. 17 And their message will spread like cancer. (P)Hymenaeus and Philetus are of this sort, 18 who have strayed concerning the truth, (Q)saying that the resurrection is already past; and they overthrow the faith of some.
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- 2 Timothy 2:7 NU the Lord will give you
- 2 Timothy 2:10 chosen ones
- 2 Timothy 2:14 battle
- 2 Timothy 2:16 empty chatter
- 2 Timothy 2:16 lead
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