Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Exhortations to hate and avoid
I urge you, brethren, to take note of those who cause divisions and difficulties, contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; avoid them.
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I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; not at all meaning the immoral people of this world, or with the greedy and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any one who bears the name of brother if he is an immoral person, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindlernot even to eat with such a one.
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partners with them;
and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a means of gain.
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holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.
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Character » Of the wicked » Hypocritical
holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.
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Character of the wicked » Hypocritical
holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.
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Formalism » Warnings against
holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.
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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law, justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
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If with Christ you died to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you still belonged to it, do you submit to regulations such as,
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'These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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You observe days and months and seasons and years! I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
Hypocrites » Described as » Having but a form of Godliness
holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.
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Knowledge » Who has no knowledge
If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching which accords with godliness, he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, which produce envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions, and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a means of gain.
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, read more.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, weighed down with sins and swayed by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, weighed down with sins and swayed by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Religion » Formalism » Warnings against
holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.
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"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law, justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
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If with Christ you died to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you still belonged to it, do you submit to regulations such as,
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'These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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You observe days and months and seasons and years! I fear for you, that perhaps I have labored over you in vain.
Separation » Pharisaic separation condemned » Of saints from false professors, in the church
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother who is living in idleness and not according to the tradition which you received from us.
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I urge you, brethren, to take note of those who cause divisions and difficulties, contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; avoid them.
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and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a means of gain.
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holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.
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But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any one who bears the name of brother if he is an immoral person, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindlernot even to eat with such a one.
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If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
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If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting;
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Turning » Who to turn from
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of stress. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, read more.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding a form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid such people.