1 John 2:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

Went out

They might

Hebrews 10:39

General references

Matthew 25:2

John 10:5

1 Timothy 5:15

Bible References

Went out

And what was sown upon the thin rocky soil illustrates the man who hears the message and bubbling over with joy at once accepts it,

Some fell upon rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up at once, because the soil was not deep;

The portion of them on the rock illustrates those who accept the message, bubbling over with joy when they first hear it, but it takes no real root. They believe for awhile, but in the time of testing they fall away.

He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more.

As we have heard that some of our number have disturbed you by their teaching, by continuing to unsettle your minds,

Even from your own number men will appear who will try, by speaking perversions of truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

For if, after men have escaped the corrupting ways of the world through a full knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they again become entangled in them and are conquered by them, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

These are men who cause divisions; mere animals, destitute of any spiritual nature,

They might

But it is not that God's word has failed. For not everybody that is descended from Israel really belongs to Israel,

So it is at the present time; a remnant remains, in accordance with God's unmerited favor.

Yes, indeed, there must be parties among you, in order that people of approved fitness may come to the front among you.

But they will not make any more progress, for their folly will be evident to everybody, as theirs was.

But we are not of a disposition to draw back so as to perish, but we have faith that leads to the saving of the soul.

General references

Now five of them were thoughtless and five were thoughtful,

But they will never come on behind a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

For some widows have already turned aside to follow Satan.