Romans 16:17

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Summary

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

Mark

Philippians 3:17

2 Thessalonians 3:14

Cause

Offences

Matthew 18:7

Luke 17:1

And

2 John 1:10

Bible References

Mark

tread in my steps, my brethren, and fix your eyes upon those who follow the example I give you.

and if any one should disregard what we have prescrib'd, signify it to us by letter, and don't converse with him, that he may be put to shame.

Cause

However some that arrived from Judea, told the Gentile converts, unless you are circumcised agreeably to the law of Moses, you cannot be saved.

Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to maintain all the same doctrine, to suffer no divisions among you; but to be perfectly united in the same mind, and in the same judgment.

for you are still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?

for first, I hear, that when you come together in the church, you fall into parties; and I believe it is true of some of you.

owing to nothing but your being practised upon by some, who would overturn the gospel of Christ.

and as to the false brethren, who insidiously crept in to spy out our liberty which we have by Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude;

be upon your guard against snarlers, against the contrivances of the crafty, against the spurious breed;

beware lest any one seduce you by the vain illusions of philosophy, founded upon human traditions, and meer shadows, and not upon Christ:

As there were false prophets among the people of Israel, there will likewise be false doctors among you, who by introducing pernicious sects, and by renouncing the Lord, who bought them, will bring upon themselves swift destruction.

they went out from us, but they were not of us: for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that it might be manifest, that they were not all of us.

For there are many impostors started up in the world, who will not own that Jesus Christ was incarnate. such a one is an impostor and an anti-christ.

these are they who distinguish themselves, though they are sensual, and have nothing that is spiritual.

Offences

wo unto the world, because of such scandals: tho' it cannot be, but that such occasions of relapsing should happen: yet wo to that man by whom the scandal cometh.

Then said Jesus to his disciples, it is impossible but that discouragements should come: but wo to him, who is the occasion of them.

And

if he does not relent, tell it to the church: but if he is not moved by the church, show him no more regard than you would to a pagan or a publican.

When I formerly writ to you, not to keep company with the vicious:

We direct you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw from all those of your brethren, whose conduct is irregular, and not agreeable to the instructions they received from us.

If any one deviate from this doctrine, not adhering to the wholesome instructions of our Lord Jesus Christ, the true doctrine of piety,

of which they wear the appearance, but disclaim its influence. have no intercourse with such.

A man that is an heretick, after the first and second admonition, avoid:

whoever comes to you unaccompanied with this doctrine, don't admit him to your house, nor treat him with the common term of civility.