^4 [a]Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that ^(A)friendship with the world is enmity with God? ^(B)Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

^19 (A)If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet ^(B)because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

You Will Know Them by Their Fruits^(A)

^15 (B)“Beware of false prophets, ^(C)who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

^5 (A)They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and ^(B)the world hears them. ⁶ We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. ^(C)By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Deceptions of False Teachers

¹⁸ For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who ^[a]have actually escaped from those who live in error. ¹⁹ While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of ^[b]corruption; ^(A)for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into ^[c]bondage.