Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Apostles » FALSE
"I know what you have done; your hard work and patient endurance; that you cannot tolerate wicked persons; that you have tested those who claimed to be apostles although they were not, and have found them to be imposters,
For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
Deceit » False teachers » Are workers of
For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
Deceit » False teachers are workers of
For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
Deceivers » The work of
For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
so that we may not be babies any longer, or like sailors tossed about and driven around by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men through their cunning in inventing new methods of error.
Verse Concepts
CraftinessAdulthoodFalse TeachingsFalse Teachers, Characteristics OfFalse Doctrines, Christian Attitude OfEdification, Goal Ofdoubt, results ofDoubt, Dealing WithFalse Doctrine, Dangers OfChildishnessChildhoodCharmChaosBabies, Figurative UseHeresiesInstabilityMaturity, SpiritualDeception Through False TeachersSeafaringShrewdnessStabilityTrap
For there are many insubordinate people, mere talkers with nothing to say, but deceivers of their own minds, especially those of the circumcision party,
For such men are really not serving our Lord Christ but their own base appetites, and by their fair and flattering talk they are deceiving the hearts of unsuspecting people.
But bad men and imposters will go on from bad to worse, misleading others and misled themselves.
Disciples/apostles » Who is a false apostle
But I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, as the serpent by his cunning deceived Eve, your thoughts may be turned aside from single-hearted devotion to Christ. For if anybody comes along and preaches another Jesus than the one I preached, or you receive another spirit different from the one you did receive or a glad message different from the one you did accept, you listen to it all right! For I consider myself not a single bit inferior to those surpassingly superior apostles of yours! read more.
Although I am untrained as an orator, yet I am not so in the field of knowledge. Surely, I have always made that perfectly clear to you. Did I do wrong in taking a lowly place to let you have an exalted one, in that I preached the good news about God to you without accepting any pay? I sponged on other churches by taking pay from them to render service to you, and when I was with you and needed money, I never burdened a single one of you for a cent, for the brothers came from Macedonia and supplied what I needed. And so I kept myself, as I shall always do, from being a burden to you in any way. But the truth of Christ in me, this boasting of mine shall never be stopped in the boundaries of Greece. Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do. And I shall keep on doing as I am, in order to cut the ground from under the feet of those who want an opportunity to show themselves on a level with me in the matters of which they boast. For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants also masquerade as ministers for doing right, whose doom shall be in accordance with what they do.
Although I am untrained as an orator, yet I am not so in the field of knowledge. Surely, I have always made that perfectly clear to you. Did I do wrong in taking a lowly place to let you have an exalted one, in that I preached the good news about God to you without accepting any pay? I sponged on other churches by taking pay from them to render service to you, and when I was with you and needed money, I never burdened a single one of you for a cent, for the brothers came from Macedonia and supplied what I needed. And so I kept myself, as I shall always do, from being a burden to you in any way. But the truth of Christ in me, this boasting of mine shall never be stopped in the boundaries of Greece. Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do. And I shall keep on doing as I am, in order to cut the ground from under the feet of those who want an opportunity to show themselves on a level with me in the matters of which they boast. For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants also masquerade as ministers for doing right, whose doom shall be in accordance with what they do.
false Doctrines » Teachers of, are described as » Deceitful
For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.