Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
The children
Are gone
Bible References
The children
John 8:44
You are of your father the devil, and you wish to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth, because there was no truth in him. When he may speak a lie, he speaks of his own: because he is a liar, and the father of the same.
2 Corinthians 6:15
What concord of Christ unto Belial? or what part has a faithful man with an infidel?
1 John 3:10
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love.
Are gone
1 John 2:19
They came out from us, but they were not of us; for if they were of us, they would have remained with us: but in order that they might be made manifest that they are not all of us.
Jude 1:19
These are they who are sidetracking [the people], intellectual, not having the Spirit.