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

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 without my being weak? Whose conscience is hurt without my being fired with indignation?

for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder,

I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the mercy of Christ, to some different good news??7 not that there is any other, only that there are some people who are trying to unsettle you and want to turn the good news of the Christ around.

You senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, when you had Jesus Christ shown crucified right before your eyes?

I begin to be afraid that perhaps the labor I spent on you was wasted.

For there are many who live, as I have often told you, and tell you now with tears, like enemies of the cross of Christ.

As

The devil is the father you are sprung from, and you want to carry out your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothing to do with the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true character, for he is a liar and the father of them.

and it was not Adam who was deceived, it was the woman who was deluded and fell into sin.

So the great dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

He seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

So

Such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

For I am no peddler of God's message, like most men, but like a man of sincerity, commissioned by God and in his presence, in union with Christ I utter his message.

I disown disgraceful, underhanded ways. I refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's message. It is by the open statement of the truth that I would commend myself to every human conscience in the sight of God.

for false Christs and false prophets will appear, and they will show great signs and wonders to mislead God's chosen people if they can.

and from your own number men will appear and teach perversions of the truth in order to draw the disciples away after them.

to gratify the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who sneaked in to spy upon the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to reduce us to slavery again.

You senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, when you had Jesus Christ shown crucified right before your eyes?

We must not be babies any longer, blown about and swung around by every wind of doctrine through the trickery of men with their ingenuity in inventing error.

God's blessing be with all who have an unfailing love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

What I mean is, let nobody mislead you by specious arguments.

You must not let anyone deceive you at all. For that is not until the rebellion takes place and the embodiment of disobedience makes his appearance??e who is doomed to destruction,

As I asked you to do when I was on my way to Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus in order to warn certain people there not to teach strange views

The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach

Understand this, that in the last days there are going to be hard times.

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,

For there are many undisciplined people, who deceive themselves with their empty talk, especially those of the party of circumcision.

You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.

There were false prophets too among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive sects and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.

First of all, you must understand this, that in the last days mockers will come with their mockeries, going where their passions lead

Children, it is the last hour. You have heard that Antichrist is coming, and many Antichrists have indeed appeared. So we may be sure that it is the last hour.

Dear friends, do not believe every inspired utterance, but test the utterances to see whether they come from God, for many false prophets have come out into the world.

For some people have sneaked in among us??heir doom was foretold long ago??odless persons, who turn the mercy of our God into an excuse for immorality, and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

So the great dragon, the ancient serpent who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world, was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him.

The simplicity

For my boast is what my conscience tells me, that my relations to the world and still more to you have been marked by pure motives and godly sincerity, not by worldly shrewdness but by the favor of God.

the speaker, in his exhortation, the giver of charity, with generosity, the office-holder, with devotion, the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.

General references

For no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is laid, that is, Jesus Christ himself.

to keep Satan from getting the better of us. For we know what he is after.

and it was not Adam who was deceived, it was the woman who was deluded and fell into sin.