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

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

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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

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

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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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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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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 13:11 secret or hidden truths

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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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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Yet (A)the Lord has not given you a heart to [a]perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 29:4 understand or know

“Therefore speak to them, and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Everyone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the Lord will answer him who comes, according to the multitude of his idols, that I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from Me by their idols.” ’

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Repent, turn away from your idols, and (A)turn your faces away from all your abominations. For anyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, then comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I the Lord will answer him by Myself. (B)I will set My face against that man and make him a (C)sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of My people. (D)Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

“And if the prophet is induced to speak anything, I the Lord (E)have induced that prophet, and I will stretch out My hand against him and destroy him from among My people Israel. 10 And they shall bear their iniquity; the punishment of the prophet shall be the same as the punishment of the one who inquired,

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