2 Corinthians 11:3

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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

Philippians 3:18

As

Revelation 20:2

So

The simplicity

2 Corinthians 1:12

Romans 12:8

Romans 16:18

General references

Bible References

I fear

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don't burn with indignation?

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

Indignation has taken hold on me, because of the wicked who forsake your law.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

As

The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

Adam wasn't deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

The great dragon was thrown down, the 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 seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

So

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth among you as crucified?

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ with incorruptible love. Amen.

Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

Don't be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

The great dragon was thrown down, the 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.

The simplicity

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

General references

A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

Adam wasn't deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;