Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Exhortations to hate and avoid
I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them.
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I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people??10 not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether. What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who is supposed to be a Christian brother, and yet is immoral or greedy or idolatrous or abusive or drunken or grasping??ith such a person you must not even eat.
Whatever anyone may say in the way of worthless arguments to deceive you, these are the things that are bringing God's anger down upon the disobedient. Therefore have nothing to do with them.
and mutual irritation between people of depraved minds, who are lost to the truth and think of religion only as a means of gain.
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keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.
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Character » Of the wicked » Hypocritical
keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.
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Character of the wicked » Hypocritical
keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.
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Formalism » Warnings against
keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.
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"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others.
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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
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" 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.
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You are observing days, months, seasons, and years! I begin to be afraid that perhaps the labor I spent on you was wasted.
Hypocrites » Described as » Having but a form of Godliness
keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.
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Knowledge » Who has no knowledge
Anyone who teaches different views and does not agree with the wholesome instruction which comes from our Lord Jesus Christ, and with religious teaching is a conceited, ignorant person, with a morbid craving for speculations and arguments which result only in envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions, and mutual irritation between people of depraved minds, who are lost to the truth and think of religion only as a means of gain.
Understand this, that in the last days there are going to be hard times. People will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, arrogant, abusive, undutiful, ungrateful, irreverent, unfeeling, irreconcilable, slanderous, with no self-control, brutal, with no love for what is good, read more.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, caring more for pleasure than for God, keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people. They are the kind of men who make their way into people's houses and make captives of poor, weak women, loaded down with their sins and under the control of all sorts of impulses, always ready to learn but never able to comprehend the truth.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, caring more for pleasure than for God, keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people. They are the kind of men who make their way into people's houses and make captives of poor, weak women, loaded down with their sins and under the control of all sorts of impulses, always ready to learn but never able to comprehend the truth.
Religion » Formalism » Warnings against
keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.
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"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others.
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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
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" 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.
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You are observing days, months, seasons, and years! I begin to be afraid that perhaps the labor I spent on you was wasted.
Separation » Pharisaic separation condemned » Of saints from false professors, in the church
We charge you, brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from any brother who lives in idleness, instead of following the teaching you received from us.
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I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them.
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and mutual irritation between people of depraved minds, who are lost to the truth and think of religion only as a means of gain.
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keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.
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What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who is supposed to be a Christian brother, and yet is immoral or greedy or idolatrous or abusive or drunken or grasping??ith such a person you must not even eat.
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If he refuses to listen to them, tell the congregation. And if he refuses to listen to it, treat him as a heathen or a tax-collector.
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If anyone comes to you without bringing this teaching, do not let him come into the house or bid him good morning.
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Turning » Who to turn from
Understand this, that in the last days there are going to be hard times. People will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, arrogant, abusive, undutiful, ungrateful, irreverent, unfeeling, irreconcilable, slanderous, with no self-control, brutal, with no love for what is good, read more.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, caring more for pleasure than for God, keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, caring more for pleasure than for God, keeping up the forms of religion, but resisting its influence. Avoid such people.