2 Timothy 3:5

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They will have a form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.

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  • Matt 23:27-28 : 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and all impurity. 28 So too, on the outside you appear righteous to people, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
  • Rom 2:20-24 : 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the form of knowledge and truth— 21 You then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? 22 You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? 24 For as it is written, 'The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.'
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 The Lord says: 'These people come near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their reverence for me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.'
  • Ezek 33:30-32 : 30 As for you, son of man, the people of your nation are talking about you near the walls and at the doorways of their houses. They are saying to one another, each to their brother, 'Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD.' 31 They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express love, but their hearts pursue unjust gain. 32 Indeed, to them you are like someone who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays the instrument well. They listen to your words, but they do not put them into practice.
  • Matt 7:15 : 15 Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 If anyone does not provide for their own, and especially for their own household, they have denied the faith and are worse than an unbeliever.
  • 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 These lead to constant friction among people who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means to profit. Stay away from such people.
  • 2 Tim 2:16 : 16 Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.
  • 2 Tim 2:23 : 23 But avoid foolish and ignorant controversies, because you know they breed quarrels.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
  • Titus 3:10 : 10 Warn a person who causes divisions once or twice, and then have nothing more to do with him.
  • 2 John 1:10-12 : 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or greet him. 11 For the one who greets him shares in his wicked works. 12 I have much to write to you, but I do not want to do so with paper and ink. Instead, I hope to come to you and speak face to face, so that our joy may be complete.
  • Isa 48:1-2 : 1 Hear this, house of Jacob, those who are called by the name of Israel and who have come out of Judah's lineage, who swear by the name of the LORD and invoke the God of Israel, but not in truth or righteousness. 2 For they are called from the holy city and rely on the God of Israel; the LORD of Hosts is His name.
  • Isa 58:1-3 : 1 Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a trumpet; announce to my people their rebellion and to the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the justice of their God. They ask me for righteous judgments and delight in drawing near to God. 3 'Why have we fasted,' they say, 'and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?' Yet on the day of your fasting, you pursue your own desires and oppress all your workers.
  • Rom 16:17-18 : 17 Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. 18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.
  • 2 Thess 3:6 : 6 Now we command you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from every brother or sister who is idle and does not live according to the tradition they received from us.
  • 2 Thess 3:14 : 14 If anyone does not obey our instructions in this letter, take note of that person and do not associate with them, so that they may be ashamed.

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    5These lead to constant friction among people who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means to profit. Stay away from such people.

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    6They are the kind who creep into homes and capture weak-willed women who are burdened with sins and led astray by various desires.

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    2People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and unholy.

    3They will be unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, and hostile to what is good.

    4They will be traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God.

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    16They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

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    22which all perish as they are used—based on human commands and teachings.

    23These have an appearance of wisdom in self-made religion, false humility, and severe treatment of the body, but they have no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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    6Some have departed from these and turned aside to meaningless talk.

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    7Reject worldly and silly myths, and instead, train yourself in godliness.

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    4For certain people have secretly slipped in among you—those who were written about long ago as being destined for this condemnation. They are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into a license for immorality and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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    1Now the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and the teachings of demons.

    2They will speak lies with hypocrisy, and their consciences will be seared as with a hot iron.

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    12It teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

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    6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.

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    16Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.

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    12and they bring judgment on themselves for breaking their first pledge.

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    23And they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, animals, and creeping things.

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    18For they utter arrogant, empty words and entice those who are barely escaping from others living in error, by appealing to the lustful desires of the flesh and by debauchery.

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    13For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

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    18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

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    22Abstain from every form of evil.

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    15For some have already turned away to follow Satan.

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    7They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

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    13But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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    17Therefore, beloved, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of lawless people and fall from your own steadfastness.

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    22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.