Acts 20:30
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30 Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them.
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1 John 2:19
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19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us, for if they had belonged to us they would have remained[a] with us. But by going out they made it plain that none of them belongs to us.(A)
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- 2.19 Or abided
2 Timothy 4:3-4
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3 For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound teaching, but, having their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires(A) 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.
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Jude 4-16
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4 For certain intruders have stolen in among you, people who long ago were designated for this condemnation as ungodly, who pervert the grace of our God into debauchery and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.[a](A)
Judgment on False Teachers
5 Now I desire to remind you, though you are fully informed, once and for all, that Jesus, who saved[b] a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.(B) 6 And the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains in deepest darkness for the judgment of the great day.(C) 7 Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, in the same manner as they, indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural lust,[c] serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.(D)
8 Yet in the same way these dreamers also defile the flesh, reject authority, and slander the glorious ones.[d](E) 9 But when the archangel Michael disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a condemnation of slander[e] against him but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”(F) 10 But these people slander whatever they do not understand, and they are destroyed by those things that, like irrational animals, they know by instinct. 11 Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain and perish in Korah’s rebellion.(G) 12 These are blots[f] on your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, feeding themselves.[g] They are waterless clouds carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted;(H) 13 wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the deepest darkness has been reserved forever.(I)
14 It was also about these that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “See, the Lord is coming[h] with ten thousands of his holy ones,(J) 15 to execute judgment on all and to convict all the ungodly[i] of all the deeds of ungodliness that they have committed in such an ungodly way and of all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These are grumblers and malcontents; they indulge their lusts;[j] their mouths utter bombastic nonsense, flattering people to their own advantage.(K)
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- 4 Or the only Master and our Lord Jesus Christ
- 5 Other ancient authorities read informed, that the Lord who once and for all saved
- 7 Gk went after other flesh
- 8 Or angels; Gk glories
- 9 Or condemnation for blasphemy
- 12 Or reefs
- 12 Or without fear. They are shepherds who care only for themselves
- 14 Gk came
- 15 Other ancient authorities read everyone
- 16 Other ancient authorities read their own lusts
1 Timothy 1:19-20
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19 having faith and a good conscience. By rejecting conscience, certain persons have suffered shipwreck in the faith;(A) 20 among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have turned over to Satan, so that they may be taught not to blaspheme.(B)
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Acts 11:26
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26 and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for an entire year they met with the church and taught a great many people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christians.”(A)
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Revelation 2:6
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6 Yet this is to your credit: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.
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2 John 7
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7 Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh; any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist!(A)
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2 Peter 2:18
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18 For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with debased[a] desires of the flesh they entice people who have just[b] escaped from those who live in error.
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2 Peter 2:1-3
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False Prophets and Their Punishment
2 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive opinions. They will even deny the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.(A) 2 Even so, many will follow their debaucheries, and because of these teachers[a] the way of truth will be maligned. 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.(B)
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- 2.2 Gk because of them
2 Timothy 2:17-18
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17 and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,(A) 18 who have swerved from the truth, saying resurrection[a] has already occurred. They are upsetting the faith of some.(B)
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- 2.18 Other ancient authorities read the resurrection
1 Timothy 6:5
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5 and wrangling among those who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.[a](A)
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- 6.5 Other ancient authorities add Withdraw yourself from such people
1 Timothy 5:13
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13 Besides that, they learn to be idle, gadding about from house to house, and they are not merely idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not say.(A)
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Galatians 6:12-13
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12 It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who try to compel you to be circumcised—only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.(A) 13 Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh.
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1 Corinthians 1:12-15
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12 What I mean is that each of you says, “I belong to Paul,” or “I belong to Apollos,” or “I belong to Cephas,” or “I belong to Christ.” 13 Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?(A) 14 I thank God[a] that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius,(B) 15 so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name.
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- 1.14 Other ancient authorities read I am thankful
Acts 21:38
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38 Then you are not the Egyptian who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?”(A)
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Acts 5:36-37
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36 For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him, but he was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and disappeared. 37 After him Judas the Galilean rose up at the time of the census and got people to follow him; he also perished, and all who followed him were scattered.
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Matthew 26:21-25
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21 and while they were eating he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.” 22 And they became greatly distressed and began to say to him one after another, “Surely not I, Lord?” 23 He answered, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me.(A) 24 The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.” 25 Judas, who betrayed him, said, “Surely not I, Rabbi?” He replied, “You have said so.”
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Matthew 23:15
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15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cross sea and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a child of hell[a] as yourselves.
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- 23.15 Gk Gehenna
Isaiah 59:3
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3 For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.(A)
Proverbs 23:33
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33 Your eyes will see strange things,
and your mind utter perverse things.(A)
Proverbs 19:1
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19 Better the poor walking in integrity
than one perverse of speech who is a fool.(A)
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