Acts 20:30

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Summary

Acts 20:30

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Of your

Speaking

To draw

Galatians 6:12

General references

Matthew 24:11

Philippians 1:24

Bible References

Of your

and as they were eating, he said, 'tis indeed true that one of this company shall betray me.

assisted by faith and a good conscience: for some having discarded the one, have entirely lost the other.

and their doctrine will spread like the gangrene. Hymeneus and Philetus are such:

for the time will come, when they will not endure sound doctrine, but get teachers of their own corrupt taste, to sooth their ears that itch for flattery:

As there were false prophets among the people of Israel, there will likewise be false doctors among you, who by introducing pernicious sects, and by renouncing the Lord, who bought them, will bring upon themselves swift destruction.

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 it might be manifest, that they were not all of us.

For there are many impostors started up in the world, who will not own that Jesus Christ was incarnate. such a one is an impostor and an anti-christ.

For certain men have insinuated themselves among you, who were formerly proscrib'd to be punish'd; impious men, who pervert the divine favour to licentiousness, and renounce their only master, and Jesus Christ our Lord.

but in this thou art right, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

Speaking

besides, having nothing to do, they get the habit of rambling from one house to another, and are not only idling, but prattle and intermeddle, and utter what is not decent.

mischievous opinions, and a familiarity with pernicious ignorant impostors, who consider religion only as it makes for their gain.

when their language swells with vanity, by applying to the sensual passions of the licentious, they allure those who were escap'd for a while, from such deceivers:

to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the impious among them, of all the impious actions they have committed, and of all the injurious expressions, which impious sinners have utter'd against him."

To draw

for some time ago one Theudas started up, pretending to be something extraordinary, who was join'd indeed by about four hundred men: but he was no sooner put to death, than his followers all dispers'd, and were reduc'd to nothing.

are not you the Egyptian, who lately made an insurrection at the head of four thousand banditti in the desart?

wo unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who ransack sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is gain'd, ye make him deserve Gehenna much more than your selves.

I mean that one or other of you cries out "I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas,

they who desire to make a figure in the world, constrain you to be circumcised, only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.

General references

many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

and my inclination to abide in this life, as being more advantageous for YOU: