Romans 16:18

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Summary

For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

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Bible References

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No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other ??you cannot serve both God and Mammon.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall my servant be also: if anyone serves me, my Father will honour him.

Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

Everybody is selfish, instead of caring for Jesus Christ.

remember, you will receive from the Lord the inheritance which is your due; serve Christ your Lord and Master,

James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: greeting.

Judas, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, to those who have been called, who are beloved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ:

A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God granted him for his servants, to show them what must come to pass very soon; he disclosed it by sending it through his angel to his servant John,

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Beware of false prophets; they come to you with the garb of sheep but at heart they are ravenous wolves.

Many false prophets will rise and mislead many.

I am, for I am not like most, adulterating the word of God; like a man of sincerity, like a man of God, I speak the word in Christ before the very presence of God.

I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

'Apostles'? They are spurious apostles, false workmen ??they are masquerading as 'apostles of Christ.'

I say this to prevent you from being deluded by plausible arguments from anybody;

and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them.

and constant friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the Truth. They imagine religion is a paying concern.

Avoid all that profane jargon, for it leads people still further into irreligion,

For men will be selfish, fond of money, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreverent,

For there are plenty of insubordinate creatures who impose on people with their empty arguments, particularly those who have come over from Judaism;

in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments ??men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see if they come from God; for many false prophets have emerged in the world.

For these people are murmurers, grumbling at their lot in life ??they fall in with their own passions, their talk is arrogant, they pay court to men to benefit themselves.