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

Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?

and said, "Truly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

And I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual, but as fleshly, as infants in Christ.

Brothers, do not be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

For when by reason of the time you ought to be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

Tossed

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

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you by the grace of Christ to a different "good news";

Foolish Galatians, who has cunningly deceived you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth as crucified?

Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of the Lord had come.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

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

They went out from us, but they did not belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

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

By the

Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

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

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who barely escape from those who live in error;

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

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with 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 that burns with sulfur.

Lie

He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, LORD.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

Therefore do not yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."

General references

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

They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they do not know the voice of strangers."