1 Timothy 4:2

World English Bible (2000)

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

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  • Eph 4:19 : 19 who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
  • Rom 16:18 : 18 For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
  • Eph 4:14 : 14 that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
  • 2 Tim 3:5 : 5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.
  • 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.
  • Rev 16:14 : 14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.
  • 1 Kgs 13:18 : 18 He said to him, "I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, 'Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'" He lied to him.
  • 1 Kgs 22:22 : 22 Yahweh said to him, 'How?' He said, 'I will go out and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' He said, 'You will entice him, and will also prevail. Go out and do so.'
  • Isa 9:15 : 15 The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:
  • Jer 23:14 : 14 In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.
  • Jer 23:32 : 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn't send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.
  • Dan 8:23-25 : 23 In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce face, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up. 24 His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power; and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper and do [his pleasure]; and he shall destroy the mighty ones and the holy people. 25 Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in [their] security shall he destroy many: he shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.
  • Matt 7:15 : 15 "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
  • Matt 24:24 : 24 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

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    18For, 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;

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    3forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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    13receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

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    2But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

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

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  • Eph 4:18-19
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    18being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

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    1Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

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    4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

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

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    18For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

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    9Don't lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

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    17and their word will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

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    16having a good conscience; that, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

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    10and 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.

    11Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

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    19holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;

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    3For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;

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

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    2Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

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    35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."

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

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    25Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

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    13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.

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    14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

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    3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.