Warning Against False Teachers
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g As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not h to teach any different doctrine,
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nor i to devote themselves to myths and endless j genealogies, which promote k speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.
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The aim of our charge is love l that issues from a pure heart and m a good conscience and n a sincere faith.
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Certain persons, by o swerving from these, have wandered away into p vain discussion,
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desiring to be teachers of the law, q without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.
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Now we know that r the law is good, if one uses it lawfully,
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understanding this, that the s law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers,
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the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to t sound doctrine,
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in accordance with u the gospel of the glory of v the blessed God w with which I have been entrusted.
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Titus 1:5
This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you -
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1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness.
Galatians 1:6 - 7
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel -
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1 Timothy 4:7
Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness.
2 Timothy 4:4
And will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
Titus 1:14
Not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.
2 Peter 1:16
For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
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Titus 3:9
But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.
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1 Timothy 6:4
He is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions.
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2 Timothy 2:22
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
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1 Peter 3:16
Having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
1 Peter 3:21
Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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Romans 12:9
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
2 Timothy 1:5
I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
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1 Timothy 6:21
For by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you.
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Titus 1:10
For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.
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1 Timothy 6:4
He is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions.
Colossians 2:18
Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind.
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Romans 7:16
Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.
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Galatians 5:23
Gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
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2 Timothy 4:3
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions.
1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness.
2 Timothy 1:13
Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
Titus 1:13
This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.
Titus 2:2
Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
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2 Corinthians 4:4
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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1 Timothy 6:15
Which he will display at the proper time - he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords.
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Titus 1:3
And at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior.
Romans 2:16
On that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Galatians 2:7
On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised
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