1 John 2:26

World English Bible (2000)

These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

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  • 2 John 1:7 : 7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.
  • 1 John 3:7 : 7 Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
  • Prov 12:26 : 26 A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.
  • Ezek 13:10 : 10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one builds up a wall, behold, they plaster it with whitewash:
  • Mark 13:22 : 22 For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
  • Acts 20:29-30 : 29 For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
  • 2 Cor 11:13-15 : 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles. 14 And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
  • Col 2:18 : 18 Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
  • 1 Tim 4:1 : 1 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing 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 false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. 2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

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  • 1 John 2:27-28
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    27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

    28 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

  • Col 2:4
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    4 Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

  • 1 John 2:19-21
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    19 They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

    20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

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

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

    14 But you remain 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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    16 as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

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

  • 1 Tim 4:1
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    1 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

  • 2 John 1:7-8
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    7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don't confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

    8 Watch yourselves, that we don't lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

  • 2 Pet 2:18-19
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    18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

    19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

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

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

    15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

  • 2 Tim 3:6
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    6 For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

  • 2 Pet 2:1-3
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    1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

    2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

    3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

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

    18 They said to you that "In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts."

    19 These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

  • 1 John 2:24-25
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    24 Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

    25 This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

  • Gal 1:7
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    7 and there isn't another "good news." Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

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

  • 2 Pet 3:2
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    2 that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandments of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

  • 2 Thess 2:2-3
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    2 not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.

    3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the departure comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,

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

  • John 16:1
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    1 "These things have I spoken to you, so that you wouldn't be caused to stumble.

  • Rev 2:20
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    20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

  • Rom 16:17
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    17 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

  • 1 Tim 1:6
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    6 from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned aside to vain talking;

  • Acts 20:30
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    30 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

  • Gal 5:8
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    8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

  • Jude 1:4
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    4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

  • 2 Tim 2:14
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    14 Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don't argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

  • 2 Pet 2:14
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    14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

  • 1 Tim 1:3
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    3 As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

  • 1 John 2:1
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    1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

  • 2 Thess 2:10
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    10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

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

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

  • 2 Thess 2:5
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    5 Don't you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

  • 1 Cor 5:9
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    9 I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

  • 1 John 5:13
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    13 These 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 continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.