Ephesians 4:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?

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

But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,

Tossed

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

I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.

But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel--

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.

I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments.

not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.

You are aware 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 creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.

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

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 become plain that they all are not of us.

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

By the

And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.

For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone'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 is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,

For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.

And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Lie

he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

For behold, they lie in wait for my life; fierce men stir up strife against me. For no transgression or sin of mine, O LORD,

The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.

But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for your consent.

General references

Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

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