2 Corinthians 11:3

Williams

2 Corinthians 11:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 too? Who is caused to fall without my being fired with indignation?

I repeat it, I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, rivalries, slanders, gossiping, haughty pride, and disorders,

I am astonished that you are beginning so soon to turn away from Him who called you by the favor of Christ, to a different good news,

O senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was pictured as the crucified One?

I am beginning to fear that I have bestowed my labors on you for nothing.

For there are many, of whom I have often told you, and now tell you in tears, who practice living as the enemies of the cross of Christ.

As

You sprang from the devil, your real father, and you want to practice your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the very start, and he does not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks out of his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

and it was not Adam who was deceived, but it was the woman who was utterly deceived and fell into transgression.

So the huge dragon, the ancient serpent, 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

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

Now who is qualified for such a task? I am, for I am not a peddler of God's message, like the most of them, but like a man of sincerity, like a man that is sent from God and living in His presence, in union with Christ I speak His message.

On the other hand, I have renounced all underhanded, disgraceful methods; I neither practice cunning nor do I tamper with God's message, but by clear and candid statements of truth I try to commend myself to every human conscience in God's sight.

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

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

I am astonished that you are beginning so soon to turn away from Him who called you by the favor of Christ, to a different good news,

they did not try it even for the sake of the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who stole in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to make us slaves again.

O senseless Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was pictured as the crucified One?

so that we may not be babies any longer, or like sailors tossed about and driven around by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men through their cunning in inventing new methods of error.

Spiritual blessing be with all who have an undying love for our Lord Jesus Christ.

I am saying this to keep anyone from misleading you by persuasive arguments.

Do not let anybody at all deceive you about this, because that cannot take place until the great revolt occurs and the representative of lawlessness is uncovered, the one who is doomed to destruction,

As I begged you to do when I was on my way to Macedonia, I still beg you to stay on in Ephesus to warn certain teachers

Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in later times some will turn away from the faith, because they continuously give their attention to deceiving spirits and the things that demons teach

Now you must know that in the last days there are going to be hard times.

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but to gratify their own evil desires will surround themselves with teachers who teach to gratify their own evil desires, because their ears are itching so to be tickled,

For there are many insubordinate people, mere talkers with nothing to say, but deceivers of their own minds, especially those of the circumcision party,

You must stop being carried away with varied and strange teachings. For it is a good thing for the heart to be strengthened by God's spiritual strength, not by special kinds of food, from which those adhering to them have gotten no good.

Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you too, who will insidiously introduce destructive heresies 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, living in accordance with their evil passions,

Little children, it is the last hour, just as you have heard that Antichrist is Coming, and already many Antichrists have appeared; so we may be sure that it is the last hour.

Dearly beloved, stop believing every so-called spiritual utterance, but keep testing them to see whether they come from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

For certain persons have sneaked in -- their doom was written down long ago -- godless persons, who turn the favor of our God into an excuse for licentiousness, and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

So the huge dragon, the ancient serpent, 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 this, to which my conscience testifies, that before the world, but especially before you, I have acted from pure motives and in sincerity before God, not depending on worldly wisdom but on God's unmerited favor.

or of one who encourages others, in the field of encouragement; or one who gives his money, with liberality; or one who leads others, with earnestness; or one who does deeds of charity, with cheerfulness.

For such men are really not serving our Lord Christ but their own base appetites, and by their fair and flattering talk they are deceiving the hearts of unsuspecting people.

General references

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

to keep us from being worsted by Satan, for we know what his intentions are.

and it was not Adam who was deceived, but it was the woman who was utterly deceived and fell into transgression.