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 milk, [those] taken from [the] breast?

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

And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual [people], but as to fleshly [people], as to infants in Christ.

Brothers, do not become children in [your] understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in [your] understanding be mature.

For indeed, [although you] ought to be teachers {by this time}, you have need of someone to teach you again the beginning elements of the oracles of God, and {you have need of} milk, not solid food.

Tossed

And from among you yourselves men will arise, speaking {perversions of the truth} in order to draw away the disciples after them.

Now I exhort you, brothers, to look out for those who cause dissensions and temptations contrary to the teaching which you learned, and stay away from them.

But I am afraid lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be led astray from the sincerity and the purity of [devotion] to Christ.

I am astonished that you are turning away so quickly from the one who called you by the grace of Christ to a different gospel,

O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed [as] having been crucified?

I say this in order that no one will deceive you with persuasive speech,

that you not be easily shaken from your composure, nor be troubled either by a spirit or by a message or by a letter {alleged to be from us}, to the effect that the day of the Lord has arrived.

not newly converted, lest he become conceited [and] fall into the condemnation of the devil.

[By] teaching these [things] to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed faithfully.

You know this, that all those in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

and their message {will spread} like gangrene, among whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires,

For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound teaching, but in accordance with their own desires, they will accumulate for themselves teachers, {because they have an insatiable curiosity},

Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who will bring in {destructive heresies}, even denying the Master who bought them, [thus] bringing on themselves swift destruction.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But [they went out], in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits [to determine] if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By the

and many false prophets will appear and will deceive many,

For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives--but as from God--we speak before God in Christ.

but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.

For such people [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

whose coming is in accordance with the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders,

{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,

And I saw another beast coming up from the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he was speaking like a dragon.

And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs before him, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.

Lie

He lies in ambush {secretly,} like a lion in a thicket. He lies in ambush to seize [the] poor; he seizes [the] poor by catching him in his net.

For look, they lie in wait for my life. The mighty attack against me, not [because of] my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh.

The faithful [person] has perished from the land, and there is none who is upright among humankind. All of them lie in wait; each hunts his brother [with] a net.

You therefore do not be persuaded by them, because more [than] forty men of {their number} are lying in wait [for] him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have done away with him. And now they are ready, waiting for {you to agree}."

General references

Cease to listen to instruction, my child, {and you will stray} from sayings of knowledge.

And they will never follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."