Ephesians 5:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

No

Vain

2 Kings 18:20

Jeremiah 23:14

Cometh

Colossians 3:6

Children

Ephesians 2:2

General references

Proverbs 14:12

Bible References

No

"For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, 'Do not let the prophets or those among you who claim to be able to predict the future by divination deceive you. And do not pay any attention to the dreams that you are encouraging them to dream.

"'This is because they have led my people astray saying, "All is well," when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, they coat it with whitewash.

This is what the Lord says: "The prophets who mislead my people are as good as dead. If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him.

Jesus answered them, "Watch out that no one misleads you.

Jesus began to say to them, "Watch out that no one misleads you.

Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. For a person will reap what he sows,

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

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not arrive until the rebellion comes and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.

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.

Vain

Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me?

But I see the prophets of Jerusalem doing something just as shocking. They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies. So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil, with the result that they do not stop their evildoing. I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom, and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah.

Cometh

So the Lord's anger was kindled against the Israelites, and he made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all that generation that had done wickedly before the Lord was finished.

The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord.

when the anger of God flared up against them. He killed some of the strongest of them; he brought the young men of Israel to their knees.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,

Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

Children

in which you formerly lived according to this world's present path, according to the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

General references

There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way that leads to death.