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Apostasy » Shall abound in the latter days
and because of the increase of wickedness, most men's love will grow cold.
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You must not let anyone deceive you at all. For that is not until the rebellion takes place and the embodiment of disobedience makes his appearance??e who is doomed to destruction,
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The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences who forbid people to marry and insist on abstinence from certain kinds of food that God created for men who believe and understand the truth to enjoy and give thanks for.
Apostates » Shall abound in the latter days
and because of the increase of wickedness, most men's love will grow cold.
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You must not let anyone deceive you at all. For that is not until the rebellion takes place and the embodiment of disobedience makes his appearance??e who is doomed to destruction,
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The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences who forbid people to marry and insist on abstinence from certain kinds of food that God created for men who believe and understand the truth to enjoy and give thanks for.
Asceticism » Extreme application of » Rebuked by paul
If you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things, why do you act as though you still belonged to the world, and submit to rules like "You must not handle," "You must not taste," "You must not touch"??22 referring to things that are all meant to be used up and destroyed? This is to follow mere human rules and regulations. Such practices pass for wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, and their ascetic discipline, but they carry with them no real distinction, they are really only a catering to the flesh.
The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences who forbid people to marry and insist on abstinence from certain kinds of food that God created for men who believe and understand the truth to enjoy and give thanks for. read more.
For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving,
For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving,
Physical training is of some service, but religion is of service in every way, for it carries with it the promise of life here and hereafter.
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Conscience » Guilty
For if we choose to go on sinning after we have so fully learned the truth, there is no sacrifice left to be offered for our sins, but only the dreadful prospect of judgment and that blazing indignation which is to devour God's enemies.
King Herod heard of him, for his name was now well known, and people were saying that John the baptizer had risen from the dead, and that that was why he was endowed with these extraordinary powers.
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Then Judas who had betrayed him, when he saw that he had been condemned, in his remorse brought back the thirty silver pieces to the high priests and elders, and said, "I did wrong when I handed an innocent man over to death!" They said, "What is that to us? You see to it yourself." And he threw down the silver and left the Temple and went off and hung himself.
how much more surely will the blood of the Christ, who with the eternal Spirit made himself an unblemished offering to God, purify our consciences from the old wrongdoing for the worship of the everliving God?
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At that time, Herod the governor heard the reports about Jesus, and he said to his attendants, "This man must be John the Baptist. He has risen from the dead, and that is why wonderful powers are working through him."
But when Herod heard of him he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead."
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When they heard this, they were stung to the heart, and they said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"
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through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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To the pure everything is pure, but to the evil-minded and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are unclean.
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Conscience » Dead
So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding. They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart, for they have become callous, and abandoned themselves to sensuality, greedily practicing every kind of vice.
through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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To the pure everything is pure, but to the evil-minded and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their very minds and consciences are unclean.
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They will exclude you from their synagogues; why, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is doing religious service to God. They will do this because they do not know the Father or me.
for, though they knew God, they have not honored him as God or given thanks to him, but they have indulged in futile speculations, until their stupid minds have become dark. They called themselves wise, but they have turned into fools, and for the splendor of the immortal God they have substituted images in the form of mortal man, birds, animals, and reptiles. read more.
So God abandoned them, with their heart's cravings, to impurity, and let them degrade their own bodies. For they had exchanged the truth of God for what was false, and worshiped and served what he had created, instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen!
So God abandoned them, with their heart's cravings, to impurity, and let them degrade their own bodies. For they had exchanged the truth of God for what was false, and worshiped and served what he had created, instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen!
Conscience » Of the wicked, seared
through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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Hypocrisy » General references to
Meanwhile as the people gathered in thousands, until they actually trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.
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They profess to know God, but they disown him by what they do; they are detestable, disobedient men, worthless for any good purpose.
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through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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So you outwardly appear to men to be upright, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
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Hypocrites » The apostacy to abound with
through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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Iron » Figurative
through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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Iron » Illustrative » (seared with,) of insensibility of conscience
through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » False teachers, warnings against
There were false prophets too among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive sects and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.
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Anyone who teaches different views and does not agree with the wholesome instruction which comes from our Lord Jesus Christ, and with religious teaching
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through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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They would like to be teachers of law although they do not understand the words they use or the matters they insist upon.
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For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,
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They must be silenced, for such men upset whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach, for the sake of dishonest gain.
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Anyone, therefore, who weakens one of the slightest of these commands, and teaches others to do so, will be ranked lowest in the Kingdom of Heaven; but anyone who observes them and teaches others to do so will be ranked high in the Kingdom of Heaven.
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But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.' "
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Lying » A characteristic of the apostacy
through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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The other's appearance, by the contrivance of Satan, will be full of power and pretended signs and wonders,
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Man » Possessed of » Conscience
through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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for they show that what the Law demands is written on their hearts, and their consciences will testify for them, and with their thoughts they will either accuse or perhaps defend themselves,
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Religion » Hypocrisy, an ever present element in false religion » General references to
Meanwhile as the people gathered in thousands, until they actually trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.
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They profess to know God, but they disown him by what they do; they are detestable, disobedient men, worthless for any good purpose.
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through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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So you outwardly appear to men to be upright, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
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Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » False teachers, warnings against
There were false prophets too among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive sects and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.
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Anyone who teaches different views and does not agree with the wholesome instruction which comes from our Lord Jesus Christ, and with religious teaching
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through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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They would like to be teachers of law although they do not understand the words they use or the matters they insist upon.
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For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,
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They must be silenced, for such men upset whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach, for the sake of dishonest gain.
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Anyone, therefore, who weakens one of the slightest of these commands, and teaches others to do so, will be ranked lowest in the Kingdom of Heaven; but anyone who observes them and teaches others to do so will be ranked high in the Kingdom of Heaven.
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But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.' "
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Sanctification » What is sanctified
The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences who forbid people to marry and insist on abstinence from certain kinds of food that God created for men who believe and understand the truth to enjoy and give thanks for. read more.
For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving, for then it is consecrated by prayer and the Scripture used in it.
For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving, for then it is consecrated by prayer and the Scripture used in it.
Divine Teacher » FALSE » False, warnings against
There were false prophets too among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive sects and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.
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Anyone who teaches different views and does not agree with the wholesome instruction which comes from our Lord Jesus Christ, and with religious teaching
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through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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They would like to be teachers of law although they do not understand the words they use or the matters they insist upon.
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For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,
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They must be silenced, for such men upset whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach, for the sake of dishonest gain.
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Anyone, therefore, who weakens one of the slightest of these commands, and teaches others to do so, will be ranked lowest in the Kingdom of Heaven; but anyone who observes them and teaches others to do so will be ranked high in the Kingdom of Heaven.
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But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.' "
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FALSE » Shepherds » Teachers
There were false prophets too among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive sects and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.
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Anyone who teaches different views and does not agree with the wholesome instruction which comes from our Lord Jesus Christ, and with religious teaching
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through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences
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They would like to be teachers of law although they do not understand the words they use or the matters they insist upon.
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For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,
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They must be silenced, for such men upset whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach, for the sake of dishonest gain.
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Anyone, therefore, who weakens one of the slightest of these commands, and teaches others to do so, will be ranked lowest in the Kingdom of Heaven; but anyone who observes them and teaches others to do so will be ranked high in the Kingdom of Heaven.
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But their worship of me is all in vain, For the lessons they teach are but human precepts.' "
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