Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Exhortations to hate and avoid
But I beg you, brothers, to keep on the lookout for those who stir up divisions and put hindrances in your way, in opposition to the instruction that you had, and always avoid them.
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I wrote you in my letter to stop associating with sexually immoral people -- not that you are to stop all dealings with sexually immoral people of this world, any more than with its greedy graspers, or its idolaters, for then you would have to get clear out of the world. Now what I really meant was for you to stop associating with any so-called brother, if he is sexually immoral, a greedy grasper, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler -- with such a person you must even stop eating.
Stop letting anyone deceive you with groundless arguments about these things, for it is because of these very sins that God's anger comes down upon the disobedient. So you must stop having anything to do with them.
and perpetual friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, who imagine that religion is only a means of gain.
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keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.
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Character » Of the wicked » Hypocritical
keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.
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Character of the wicked » Hypocritical
keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.
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Formalism » Warnings against
keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.
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"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint and dill and cummin, and yet leave out the more vital matters of the law, justice, love and fidelity. These latter especially you ought to have done, but ought not to have left out the former.
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If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as,
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"'This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far, far away from me;
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You are observing days, months, seasons, years. I am beginning to fear that I have bestowed my labors on you for nothing.
Hypocrites » Described as » Having but a form of Godliness
keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.
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Knowledge » Who has no knowledge
If anyone teaches different doctrines and refuses to agree with the wholesome messages of our Lord Jesus Christ, the teaching that is in accordance with true religion, he is a conceited ignoramus with a morbid appetite for discussions and controversies which lead to envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions, and perpetual friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, who imagine that religion is only a means of gain.
Now you must know that in the last days there are going to be hard times. For people will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreverent, lacking in love for kinsmen, irreconcilable, slanderers, having no self-control, savage, lacking in love for the good, read more.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure more than God, keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people. For some of them practice going into people's houses and capturing weak and silly women who are overwhelmed with the weight of their sins, who are easily led about by all sorts of evil impulses, who are always trying to learn but never able to come to a full knowledge of the truth.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure more than God, keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people. For some of them practice going into people's houses and capturing weak and silly women who are overwhelmed with the weight of their sins, who are easily led about by all sorts of evil impulses, who are always trying to learn but never able to come to a full knowledge of the truth.
Religion » Formalism » Warnings against
keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.
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"A curse on you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees! For you pay tithes on mint and dill and cummin, and yet leave out the more vital matters of the law, justice, love and fidelity. These latter especially you ought to have done, but ought not to have left out the former.
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If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as,
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"'This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far, far away from me;
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You are observing days, months, seasons, years. I am beginning to fear that I have bestowed my labors on you for nothing.
Separation » Pharisaic separation condemned » Of saints from false professors, in the church
Now we charge you, brothers, on the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ, to hold yourselves aloof from any brother who is living as a shirker instead of following the teachings you received from us.
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But I beg you, brothers, to keep on the lookout for those who stir up divisions and put hindrances in your way, in opposition to the instruction that you had, and always avoid them.
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and perpetual friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, who imagine that religion is only a means of gain.
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keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.
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Now what I really meant was for you to stop associating with any so-called brother, if he is sexually immoral, a greedy grasper, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler -- with such a person you must even stop eating.
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And if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a heathen and as a tax-collector.
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If anyone continuously comes to see you without bringing this teaching, you must stop welcoming him to your house and stop bidding him good morning,
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Turning » Who to turn from
Now you must know that in the last days there are going to be hard times. For people will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, haughty, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, irreverent, lacking in love for kinsmen, irreconcilable, slanderers, having no self-control, savage, lacking in love for the good, read more.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure more than God, keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.
treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure more than God, keeping up the forms of religion but not giving expression to its power. Avoid such people.