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

{worthless men} have gone out from your midst and have seduced the inhabitants of their town, {saying}, 'Let us go and serve other gods!' whom you have not known,

Even {my close friend}, whom I trusted, [who] ate my bread, has lifted [his] heel against me.

And what was sown on the rocky ground--this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

And other [seed] fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once, because it did not have [any] depth of soil.

And those on the rock [are those] who receive the word with joy when they hear [it], and these do not have [enough] root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away.

Every branch that does not bear fruit in me, he removes it, and every [branch] that bears fruit, he prunes it in order that it may bear more fruit.

Because we have heard that some have gone out from among us--to whom we gave no orders--[and] have thrown you into confusion by words upsetting your {minds},

And from among you yourselves men will arise, speaking {perversions of the truth} in order to draw away the disciples after them.

For if, [after they] have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in these [things] [and] succumb to [them], the last [state] has become worse for them than the first.

These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly, not having the Spirit.

They might

But [it is] not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those [who are descended] from Israel [are truly] Israel,

So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant {selected by grace}.

For indeed it is necessary that there be factions among you, in order that those who are approved may become evident among you.

But they will not progress to a greater extent, for their folly will be quite evident to everyone, as also the [folly] of those [two] was.

But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith to the preservation of [our] souls.

General references

Now five of them were foolish and five [were] wise.

And they will never follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

For already some have turned away [and followed] after Satan.