But some men came down from Judea and attempted to teach the brethren, saying, "Unless you are circumcised according to Moses' custom, you cannot be saved."

Now I beg you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to speak in accord, all of you, and to have no divisions among you, but to be knit together in a common mind and temper.

You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

To begin with, I am told??nd I believe there is some truth in it??hat when you meet at a church there are divisions among you.

for another gospel, which indeed is not another; only there are certain individuals who are troubling you, and desiring to pervert the gospel of Christ.

Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.

Beware of "these dogs," these mischievous workers, beware of the concision!

Take care lest any man drag you away captive by his philosophy which is a vain deceit, following the traditions of men and the world's crude notions, and not Christ.

But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

They came forth from us, but they did not belong to us. If they had belonged to us they would certainly have remained with us, but they went out that they might be manifest that they all are not of us.

I say this because many deceivers are gone forth into the world, those who deny the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

These are the men, sensual and unspiritual, who cause divisions.

Offences

"Woe unto the world because of such stumbling-blocks! They will surely come, but woe unto each man by whom they come!

Jesus said to his disciples. "It is not possible but that occasions of stumbling should occur, but woe to him through whom they come!

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"but if he will not heed the church, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

I told you in my letter not to associate with the immoral.

I summon you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to shun any brother who leads an idle and disorderly life, which is not according to the rule you received from me.

If any one teaches heterodoxy, and refuses to consent to the wholesome words of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teachings of religion,

For although they keep up the outward form of religion, they deny its power.

After a first and second admonition, refuse a man who is causing divisions;

If any one come to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, nor give him any greeting.