³ in whom are reserv'd all the treasures of wd om and knowledge. ⁴ I mention this, lest any one should deceive you by specious pretences. ⁵ for tho' I am absent in person, yet I am present with you in my mind, and am glad to perceive the regularily of your affairs, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

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Ephesians 5:6

let no man mislead you by vain reasonings: for it is for these vices, that the wrath of God lights upon the incredulous.

Matthew 24:4

Jesus answered them, take care not to be deceived by any one:

Matthew 24:24

for there shall arise false Messiahs, and false prophets, and shall shew such astonishing miracles and prodigies, as to deceive, if that can do it, the very converts themselves.

Mark 13:22

for false Christs, and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and prodigies, so as to seduce, if it were possible, even the very elect.

Acts 20:30

nay, among your own body some will start up to vent their intricate conceits, and draw a number of followers.

Romans 16:18-19

for such as these serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own selfishness; and by flourish and flattery, deceive the open-hearted simple.

1 Corinthians 2:4

my discourse, and my preaching did not consist in the persuasive reasonings of human wisdom, but in demonstrating the spiritual meaning of the scriptures:

2 Corinthians 11:3

but I fear lest by some means or other, as Eve was beguiled by the subtilly of the serpent, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is due to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:11-13

why so? is it because I love you not? far otherwise, God knows.

Galatians 2:4

and as to the false brethren, who insidiously crept in to spy out our liberty which we have by Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude;

Ephesians 4:14

that we should be no longer children, fluctuating, and carried about with every empty doctrine, by men vers'd in sleight and the crafty arts of deceit:

Colossians 2:8

beware lest any one seduce you by the vain illusions of philosophy, founded upon human traditions, and meer shadows, and not upon Christ:

Colossians 2:18

Let no man condemn you, from an affectation of humility, in worshipping of Angels, boldly prying into matters which he knows nothing of, being vainly puft up with his Jewish conceits:

2 Thessalonians 2:9-11

who by the instigation of satan will make his parade with various arts, with fallacious signs and prodigies,

1 Timothy 4:1-2

Now the spirit says expresly, that in the latter times some shall abandon the faith, by giving credit to seducing spirits, and the doctrine concerning demons;

2 Timothy 2:16

discountenance such as hold vain irreligious discourse; for they will grow bold in impiety,

2 Timothy 3:13

as for these impious impostors, they will go on from bad to worse, seducing others, and deluding themselves.

Titus 1:10-11

For there are many, especially among the Jews, who are obstinate, vain talkers and deceivers;

1 Peter 2:1-3

Renouncing therefore every kind of malice, and knavery, hypocrisy, envy, and detraction, as new-born infants desire that mystical milk,

1 John 2:18

Dear children, the last time is come: as ye have heard that antichrist was to come, accordingly many antichrists have already appeared; whereby we know that we are now in the last times.

1 John 2:26

These things have I written to you concerning those that would seduce you.

1 John 4:1

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2 John 1:7

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.

Revelation 12:9

the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, call'd the devil or satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were precipitated with him.

Revelation 13:8

all that dwell upon the earth will worship him, whose names are not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the lamb, that was slain.

Revelation 20:3

then cast him into the bottomless pit, there shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should seduce the nations no more, till the thousand years should he fulfilled: and after that, he was to be loosed for a short time.

Revelation 20:8

and shall go out to seduce the nations, which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to assemble them to battle: they will be as numerous as the sand of the sea.