Ephesians 4:14

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Ephesians 4:14

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Summary

That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

No more

Hebrews 5:12

Tossed

By the

Lie

General references

Proverbs 19:27

John 10:5

Bible References

No more

“To whom would He teach knowledge,
And to whom would He interpret the message?
Those just weaned from milk?
Those just taken from the breast?

and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the

elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

Tossed

and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them.

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.

I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel;

You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?

I say this so that no one will delude you with persuasive argument.

that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a

message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

and not a new convert, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil.

In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the

sound doctrine which you have been following.

You are aware of the fact that all who are in

Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

For among them are those who

enter into households and captivate

weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,

Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By the

Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.

For we are not like many,

peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.

but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and

signs and false wonders,

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon.

And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs

in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone.

Lie

He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair;
He lurks to catch the afflicted;
He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

For behold, they have set an ambush for my life;

Fierce men

launch an attack against me,

Not for my transgression nor for my sin, O Lord,

The godly person has perished from the land,
And there is no upright person among men.
All of them lie in wait for bloodshed;
Each of them hunts the other with a net.

So do not listen to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they slay him; and now they are ready and waiting for the promise from you.”

General references

Cease listening, my son, to discipline,
And you will stray from the words of knowledge.

A stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”