2 Peter 2:18

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For 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.

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  • 2 Pet 1:4 : 4 Through these things he has bestowed on us his precious and most magnificent promises, so that by means of what was promised you may become partakers of the divine nature, after escaping the worldly corruption that is produced by evil desire.
  • 2 Pet 2:20 : 20 For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.
  • Jude 1:15-16 : 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.
  • Rev 13:5-6 : 5 The beast was given a mouth speaking proud words and blasphemies, and he was permitted to exercise ruling authority for forty-two months. 6 So the beast opened his mouth to blaspheme against God– to blaspheme both his name and his dwelling place, that is, those who dwell in heaven.
  • Rev 13:11 : 11 Then I saw another beast coming up from the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but was speaking like a dragon.
  • Jas 5:5 : 5 You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.
  • Jude 1:13 : 13 wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.
  • Ps 52:1-3 : 1 For the music director; a well-written song by David. It was written when Doeg the Edomite went and informed Saul:“David has arrived at the home of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast about your evil plans, O powerful man? God’s loyal love protects me all day long! 2 Your tongue carries out your destructive plans; it is as effective as a sharp razor, O deceiver. 3 You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth.(Selah)
  • Ps 73:8-9 : 8 They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence. 9 They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king uttered these words:“Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence by my own mighty strength and for my majestic honor?”
  • Dan 11:36 : 36 “Then the king will do as he pleases. He will exalt and magnify himself above every deity and he will utter presumptuous things against the God of gods. He will succeed until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must occur.
  • Acts 2:40 : 40 With many other words he testified and exhorted them saying,“Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”
  • Acts 8:9 : 9 Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God’s temple, displaying himself as God.

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  • 2 Pet 2:19-20
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    81%

    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.

    20For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

  • 2 Tim 3:4-6
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    4treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.

    5They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these.

    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 2:2-3
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    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.

  • 2 Pet 2:12-15
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    12But these men, like irrational animals– creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed– do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,

    13suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.

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

    15By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

  • Rom 16:18
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    18For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

  • 2 Pet 2:17
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    17These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.

  • Col 2:4
    75%

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

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

  • Jude 1:16
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    16These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.

  • Eph 4:19
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    19Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

  • 2 Tim 2:16-17
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    16But avoid profane chatter, because those occupied with it will stray further and further into ungodliness,

    17and their message will spread its infection like gangrene. Hymenaeus and Philetus are in this group.

  • Jude 1:10-13
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    10But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.

    11Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah’s rebellion.

    12These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit– twice dead, uprooted;

    13wild sea waves, spewing out the foam of their shame; wayward stars for whom the utter depths of eternal darkness have been reserved.

  • Jude 1:18-19
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    73%

    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.

  • Eph 5:6
    73%

    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.

  • 2 Pet 2:10
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    10especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

  • 2 Pet 3:17
    72%

    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 John 2:26
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    26These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

  • Col 2:18
    71%

    18Let 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.

  • Jude 1:8
    71%

    8Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.

  • 1 Pet 4:3-4
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    3For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

    4So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

  • Eph 4:14
    71%

    14So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

  • 2 Thess 2:10
    71%

    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 Tim 4:1-2
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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,

    2influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.

  • Jude 1:4
    71%

    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 2:26
    71%

    26and they will come to their senses and escape the devil’s trap where they are held captive to do his will.

  • Jas 1:14-15
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    14But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires.

    15Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

  • Titus 1:10-11
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    10For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections,

    11who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.

  • Gal 5:19
    70%

    19Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

  • Col 2:23
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    23Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body– a wisdom with no true value– they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.

  • 2 Tim 4:3
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    3For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things.

  • Gal 2:4
    70%

    4Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

  • Rom 1:29
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    29They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,