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

Who is the Lord trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother's breast!

and said, "I tell you the truth, unless you turn around and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

So, brothers and sisters, I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but instead as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God's utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.

Tossed

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

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

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are following a different gospel --

You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you? Before your eyes Jesus Christ was vividly portrayed as crucified!

I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments that sound reasonable.

not to be easily shaken from your composure or disturbed by any kind of spirit or message or letter allegedly from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here.

He must not be a recent convert or he may become arrogant and fall into the punishment that the devil will exact.

By pointing out such things to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, having nourished yourself on the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.

You know that everyone in the province of Asia deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.

For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things.

Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves.

They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to 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 deceive many,

For we are not like so many others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.

But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone's conscience before God.

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

The arrival of the lawless one will be by Satan's working with all kinds of miracles and signs and false wonders,

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

Then I saw another beast coming up from the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but was speaking like a dragon.

Now the beast was seized, and along with him the false prophet who had performed the signs on his behalf -- signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. Both of them were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur.

Lie

He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.

For look, they wait to ambush me; powerful men stalk me, but not because I have rebelled or sinned, O Lord.

Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.

So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request."

General references

If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger's voice."