1 John 2:26

KJV1611 – Modern English

These things I have written to you concerning those who try to deceive you.

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  • 2 John 1:7 : 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
  • 1 John 3:7 : 7 Little children, let no one deceive you: he who does righteousness is righteous, just as he is righteous.
  • Prov 12:26 : 26 The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
  • Ezek 13:10 : 10 Because, indeed, they have seduced my people, saying, 'Peace,' when there was no peace; and one builds up a wall, and others daub it with untempered mortar.
  • Mark 13:22 : 22 For false Christs and false prophets will rise, and will show signs and wonders, to seduce, if possible, even the elect.
  • Acts 20:29-30 : 29 For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder; for Satan himself transforms into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Beware lest anyone spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the basic principles of the world, and not after Christ.
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no one beguile you of your reward in a false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
  • 1 Tim 4:1 : 1 Now the Spirit speaks clearly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits, and doctrines of demons;
  • 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
  • 2 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 But there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many will follow their pernicious ways; by whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3 And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.

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  • 1 John 2:27-28
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    27But the anointing which you have received from him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in him.

    28And now, little children, abide in him, that when he appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

  • Col 2:4
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    4And this I say, lest anyone should beguile you with enticing words.

  • 1 John 2:19-21
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    19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

    20But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things.

    21I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

  • 2 Tim 3:13-14
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    13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

    14But continue in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them;

  • 2 Pet 3:16-17
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    16As also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to understand, which those who are unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.

    17You therefore, beloved, seeing you know these things beforehand, beware lest you also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness.

  • 1 Tim 4:1
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    1Now the Spirit speaks clearly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits, and doctrines of demons;

  • 2 John 1:7-8
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    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

    8Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we have worked for, but that we may receive a full reward.

  • 2 Pet 2:18-19
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    18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through wantonness, those who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

    19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.

  • 1 John 2:13-15
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    13I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one. I write to you, little children, because you have known the Father.

    14I have written to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.

    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • 2 Tim 3:6
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    6For of this sort are those who creep into households and lead captive gullible women loaded with sins, led away by various lusts,

  • 2 Pet 2:1-3
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    1But there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who secretly will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

    2And many will follow their pernicious ways; by whom the way of truth will be blasphemed.

    3And through covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; their judgment is long overdue, and their destruction does not slumber.

  • Jude 1:17-19
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    17But, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ:

    18How they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts.

    19These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, having not the Spirit.

  • 1 John 2:24-25
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    24Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.

    25And this is the promise that he has promised us—eternal life.

  • Gal 1:7
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    7Which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 11:3
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    3But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve through his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

  • 2 Pet 3:2
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    2That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

  • 2 Thess 2:2-3
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    2That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as if the day of Christ is at hand.

    3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come unless there comes a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Let no one deceive you with empty words: for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

  • John 16:1
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    1I have spoken these things to you so that you may not be offended.

  • Rev 2:20
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    20Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce my servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.

  • Rom 16:17
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    17Now I urge you, brethren, mark those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6From which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk,

  • Acts 20:30
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    30Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.

  • Gal 5:8
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    8This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lewdness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to argue about words to no profit, to the ruin of the hearers.

  • 2 Pet 2:14
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    14Having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices and are accursed children.

  • 1 Tim 1:3
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    3As I urged you to remain in Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that you might instruct some that they teach no other doctrine,

  • 1 John 2:1
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    1My little children, I write these things to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

  • 1 John 1:4
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    4And these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

  • 2 Pet 1:12
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    12Therefore I will not be negligent to always remind you of these things, though you know them and are established in the present truth.

  • 2 Thess 2:5
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    5Do you not remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

  • 1 Cor 5:9
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    9I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

  • 1 John 5:13
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    13These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe in the name of the Son of God.