2 Corinthians 11:3

MNT

2 Corinthians 11:3

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Summary

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

I fear

As

So

The simplicity

2 Corinthians 1:12

Romans 12:8

Romans 16:18

General references

1 Corinthians 3:11

2 Corinthians 2:11

1 Timothy 2:14

Bible References

I fear

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, but I burn with indignation?

For I dread that perhaps, when I come, I may not find you to be such as I wish, and that I may be found by you such as you do not wish; I dread lest there should be quarrels, jealousy, tempers, party spirit, slandering, gossip, arrogance, tumults;

I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ,

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!

I am alarmed about you for fear lest I may have bestowed labor on you to no purpose.

For there are many??s I used often to tell you, and am now telling you even with tears??ho live and walk as the enemies of the cross of Christ.

As

"You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a man-slayer from the very beginning; and he has no standing place in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he utters a lie, he speaks from his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lying.

And it was not Adam who was deceived; but it was the woman who was thoroughly deceived, and who became involved in transgression.

Now the great dragon was thrown down??hat old Serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

He gripped the dragon, that old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

So

For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ.

I am; for I am not like most, trafficking in the word of God, but rather from a sincere heart, like a man of God, I speak in Christ, in the very presence of God.

I have renounced the hidden things of shame, not spending my life in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God; but setting forth the truth openly, I strive to commend myself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God.

For false christs and false prophets will arise, and will work great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if it were possible, the very elect.

and that from among your own number, men will arise, perverting the truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

I am amazed that you are so soon shifting your ground, and deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ,

Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you? You, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was placarded as crucified!

So we shall no longer be children, tossed up and down, and blown about by every wind of teaching, tricked by the craft of men in the snares of misleading error;

May grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with sincerity.

And this I say, lest any one should mislead you with enticing words.

Let no one deceive you by any means. For it will not come until after the Great Apostasy, and the revealing of the Man of Sin, the son of perdition,

As I begged you when I was setting out for Macedonia, stay where you are at Ephesus, and instruct certain individuals there not to be teaching heterodoxy,

Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in latter days there will be some who will fall away from the faith, by listening to spirits of error, and to teachings of demons

But of this be sure. In the last days grievous times will come.

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will heap up for themselves teachers upon teachers to satisfy their own fancies.

For there are many individuals who are unruly, empty talkers and deceivers, particularly those of the circumcision, whose mouths must be stopped;

Do not allow yourselves to be swept away by various and strange teachings. For it is a beautiful thing to be established in heart by grace, and not by regulations regarding food, from which those that occupied themselves with them have derived no benefit.

But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

Know this first, that mockers will come in the last days, in their mockery, men who walk the way of their own lusts

My children, this is the last hour, and as you have heard that an antichrist was coming, and now many antichrists are already risen, whence we may know that it is the last hour.

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

For certain men have crept in stealthily??en predestined in ancient prophecies for this condemnation??mpious ones! They pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness, and deny Jesus Christ, our sole Master and Lord.

The simplicity

For this is my proud boast, the testimony of my conscience, that it was in holiness and with pure motives before God, not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God, that I have conducted myself in the world, and above all in my relations with you.

Let the teacher give himself to his teaching; and he who exhorts others to his exhortation. He who gives, let him do it in singleness of mind. He who rules, let him rule with diligence; and he who shows mercy must be cheerful.

Turn away from them. For men of that stamp are not the slaves of Christ, but are slaves to their own appetites. By their smooth and fair speech they beguile the hearts of the innocent.

General references

The foundation is already laid??esus Christ??nd no man can lay another.

for your sakes, that I may not be overreached by Satan, for I am not ignorant of his devices.

And it was not Adam who was deceived; but it was the woman who was thoroughly deceived, and who became involved in transgression.