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do not listen to them. The Lord your God is testing you to see if you truly love him with all your heart and soul.

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you must not listen to the words of that prophet(A) or dreamer.(B) The Lord your God is testing(C) you to find out whether you love(D) him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands.

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Remember how the Lord your God led(A) you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test(B) you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

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19 But, of course, there must be divisions among you so that you who have God’s approval will be recognized!

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19 No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval.(A)

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10 You have tested us, O God;
    you have purified us like silver.

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10 For you, God, tested(A) us;
    you refined us like silver.(B)

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And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.

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Love(A) the Lord your God with all your heart(B) and with all your soul and with all your strength.(C)

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11 So God will cause them to be greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies.

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11 For this reason God sends them(A) a powerful delusion(B) so that they will believe the lie(C)

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20 Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark.

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20 Consult God’s instruction(A) and the testimony of warning.(B) If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light(C) of dawn.

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14 And with all the miracles he was allowed to perform on behalf of the first beast, he deceived all the people who belong to this world. He ordered the people to make a great statue of the first beast, who was fatally wounded and then came back to life.

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14 Because of the signs(A) it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived(B) the inhabitants of the earth.(C) It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived.(D)

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But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.

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You, dear children,(A) are from God and have overcome them,(B) because the one who is in you(C) is greater than the one who is in the world.(D)

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Discerning False Prophets

Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in 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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19 These people left our churches, but they never really belonged with us; otherwise they would have stayed with us. When they left, it proved that they did not belong with us.

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19 They went out from us,(A) but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.(B)

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14 Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.

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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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I am not commanding you to do this. But I am testing how genuine your love is by comparing it with the eagerness of the other churches.

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I am not commanding you,(A) but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others.

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