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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Lie

Acts 23:21

General references

John 10:5

Bible References

No more

and said, I tell you truly, that if you do not turn and become like little children, you can by no means enter into the kingdom of heaven.

And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as carnal, as babes in Christ.

Brothers, be not children in understanding, but in malice be children, and in understanding be perfect men.

For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food.

Tossed

and of yourselves men will arise speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

I exhort you, brothers, to observe those that cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the teaching which you learned, and avoid them;

but I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve with his craftiness, so also your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity which is in Christ.

I wonder that you have so quickly turned away from him that called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel,

O FOOLISH Galatians, who has fascinated you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ has been set forth among you crucified?

But I say this that no one may mislead you with persuasive words.

that you be not soon shaken in mind, nor terrified, neither by a spirit, nor by a discourse, nor by an epistle as from us, as though the day of the Lord was at hand.

Suggesting these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and the good instruction which you have followed;

You know this, that all those in Asia left me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

and their word will eat like a gangrene; of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

Of these are those who go into the houses and take captive foolish women loaded with sins, and led by various desires,

for the time will come when they will not endure sound instruction, but will accumulate for themselves teachers according to their desires, pleasing their ear,

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, 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 continued with us; but [they went out from us] that they might be manifest that they are not all of us.

BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

By the

and many false prophets shall be raised up and deceive many,

For we are not as many, who adulterate the word of God, [for gain]; but as of sincerity, but as of God, we speak before God in Christ.

but have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but commending ourselves by the manifestation of the truth to every conscience of men before God.

For such false apostles, deceitful laborers, transform themselves into apostles of Christ.

whose coming is according to the power of Satan, with all power and miracles and false prodigies

For speaking extravagant words of vanity, they entice with carnal desires of lewdness those scarcely escaped from them, those living in error,

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

And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet who performed miracles before him, with which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worship his image; and the two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulphur.

Lie

But do not therefore be persuaded by them; for more than forty men of them lie in wait, who have taken an oath not to eat nor drink till they have killed him, and now they are ready, awaiting an answer from you.

General references

But a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, for they know not the voice of strangers.