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

Tossed

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Acts 23:21

General references

John 10:5

Bible References

No more

and he said, "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as carnal men, as infants in Christ.

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

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food;

Tossed

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

I urge you, brethren, to take note of those who cause divisions and difficulties, contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; avoid them.

But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ and turning to 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 may delude you with fine-sounding arguments.

not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by word, or by letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

If you point out these things to the brethren, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

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 make their way into households and capture weak women, weighed down with sins and swayed by various impulses,

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit 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 of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that it might be plain that none of them were of us.

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

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And many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.

For we are not, like so many, peddling the word of God; but as men of sincerity, as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

But we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

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

The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and 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 like a dragon.

And the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with sulfur.

Lie

But do not yield to them; for more than forty of them are waiting in ambush for him, having bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink until they have killed him; and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from you."

General references

A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."