1 John 2:26

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These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

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  • 2 John 1:7 : 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!
  • 1 John 3:7 : 7 Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Jesus is righteous.
  • Prov 12:26 : 26 The righteous person is cautious in his friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
  • Ezek 13:10 : 10 “‘This is because they have led my people astray saying,“All is well,” when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, they coat it with whitewash.
  • Mark 13:22 : 22 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, the elect.
  • Acts 20:29-30 : 29 I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is not surprising his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will correspond to their actions.
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no one who delights in false humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.
  • 1 Tim 4:1 : 1 Timothy’s Ministry in the Later Times Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,
  • 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.
  • 2 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 The False Teachers’ Ungodly Lifestyle But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves. 2 And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered. 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

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  • 1 John 2:27-28
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    27Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in him.

    28Children of God And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.

  • Col 2:4
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    4I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments that sound reasonable.

  • 1 John 2:19-21
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    19They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.

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

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

  • 2 Tim 3:13-14
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    13But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.

    14You, however, must continue in the things you have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you

  • 2 Pet 3:16-17
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    16speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.

    17Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard that you do not get led astray by the error of these unprincipled men and fall from your firm grasp on the truth.

  • 1 Tim 4:1
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    1Timothy’s Ministry in the Later Times Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,

  • 2 John 1:7-8
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    7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, people who do not confess Jesus as Christ coming in the flesh. This person is the deceiver and the antichrist!

    8Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

  • 2 Pet 2:18-19
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    18For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

    19Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

  • 1 John 2:13-15
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    13I am writing to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young people, that you have conquered the evil one.

    14I have written to you, children, that you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, that you have known him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young people, that you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil 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 some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

  • 2 Pet 2:1-3
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    1The False Teachers’ Ungodly Lifestyle But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves.

    2And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.

    3And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

  • Jude 1:17-19
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    17Exhortation to the Faithful But you, dear friends– recall the predictions foretold by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    18For they said to you,“In the end time there will come scoffers, propelled by their own ungodly desires.”

    19These people are divisive, worldly, devoid of the Spirit.

  • 1 John 2:24-25
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    24As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

    25Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.

  • Gal 1:7
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    7not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ.

  • 2 Cor 11:3
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    3But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

  • 2 Pet 3:2
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    2I want you to recall both the predictions foretold by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles.

  • 2 Thess 2:2-3
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    2not to be easily shaken from your composure or disturbed by any kind of spirit or message or letter allegedly from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here.

    3Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not arrive until the rebellion comes and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.

  • Eph 5:6
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    6Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

  • John 16:1
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    1“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

  • Rev 2:20
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    20But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

  • Rom 16:17
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    17Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who create dissensions and obstacles contrary to the teaching that you learned. Avoid them!

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6Some have strayed from these and turned away to empty discussion.

  • Acts 20:30
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    30Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

  • Gal 5:8
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    8This persuasion does not come from the one who calls you!

  • Jude 1:4
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    4For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14Dealing with False Teachers Remind people of these things and solemnly charge them before the Lord not to wrangle over words. This is of no benefit; it just brings ruin on those who listen.

  • 2 Pet 2:14
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    14Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!

  • 1 Tim 1:3
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    3Timothy’s Task in Ephesus As I urged you when I was leaving for Macedonia, stay on in Ephesus to instruct certain people not to spread false teachings,

  • 1 John 2:1
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    1(My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous One,

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.

  • 1 John 1:4
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    4Thus we are writing these things so that our joy may be complete.

  • 2 Pet 1:12
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    12Salvation Based on the Word of God Therefore, I intend to remind you constantly of these things even though you know them and are well established in the truth that you now have.

  • 2 Thess 2:5
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    5Surely you recall that I used to tell you these things while I was still with you.

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

  • 1 John 5:13
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    13Assurance of Eternal Life I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.