Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Affections » False teachers seek to captivate
For now do I persuade men, or God? or seek I to please men? for if I had yet pleased men, I should not have been the servant of Christ.
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They are zealous for you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye might be zealous for them.
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For of these are they going into houses, and taking captive little women heaped up with sins, led away with various eager desires,
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And by covetousness with feigned words shall trade in you: to whom judgment since a long while is not inactive, and their perdition sleeps not.
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For speaking excessive things of vanity, they decoy with the eager desires of the flesh, for licentiousness, them having truly escaped from those turned back in error.
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But I have a few things against thee, for thou hast there them holding the teaching of Balsam, who taught Balac to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
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But I have a few things against thee, for thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, calling herself a prophetess, to teach and to lead my servants astray to commit fornication, and to eat things offered to idols.
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Religious zeal » Without knowledge
They are zealous for you, not well; but they wish to exclude you, that ye might be zealous for them.
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For ye heard of my turning about when in Judaism, that in excess I drove out the church of God, and laid it waste: And I advanced in Judaism above many like in my race, being more abundantly zealous of paternal traditions.
For I testify for them that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For not knowing the justice of God, and seeking to establish their own justice, they have not been subjected to the justice of God.
They shall make you excluded from the synagogue: but the hour comes that every one having slain you should think to bring service to God.
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And they having heard, honoured the Lord, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many ten thousands of Jews there are having believed: and all are zealous of the law:
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Thou shalt not be greatly just; and thou shalt not be exceedingly wise: wherefore wilt thou be made desolate?
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And one scribe, coming near, said to him, Teacher, I will follow thee wherever thou goest. And Jesus says to him, The foxes have dens, and the fowls of heaven occupy nests; but the Son of man has not where he might recline the head.
And it was, they going in the way, a certain one said to him, I will follow thee wherever thou shouldest go forth, Lord. And Jesus said to him, Foxes have dens, and fowls of heaven encampments; but the Son of man has not where he might lay down the head.
And some truly by envy and strife, and some also by kindness of disposition, proclaim Christ. Some truly of hired labor announce Christ, not purely, thinking to bring pressure upon my bonds: And some of love, knowing that I am placed for justification of the good news: read more.
For what? but in any manner, whether in pretence, or truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, and certainly I will rejoice.
For what? but in any manner, whether in pretence, or truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, and certainly I will rejoice.