Revelation 2:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

How

Thou hast

2 Corinthians 11:13

1 John 2:21

1 John 4:1

General references

Bible References

How

But you do have this: that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, [things] which I also hate.

not that [there] is a different [gospel], except there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.

but examine all [things]; hold fast to [what is] good.

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.

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.

Thou hast

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

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because every lie is not of the truth.

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.

General references

And if you say {to yourself}, 'How can we know the word that Yahweh has not spoken to him?'

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

By your patient endurance you will gain your lives.

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