Judgment on False Teachers
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Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you e concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting f you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
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For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
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But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that g the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
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And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
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as h Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
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i Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and j speak evil of dignitaries.
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Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, k "The Lord rebuke you!"
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l But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.
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Woe to them! For they have gone in the way m of Cain, n have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished o in the rebellion of Korah.
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These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;
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p raging waves of the sea, q foaming up their own shame; wandering stars r for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
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Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, "Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints,
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"to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the s harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him."
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These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they t mouth great swelling words, u flattering people to gain advantage.
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Titus 1:4
To Titus, a true son in our common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
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Philippians 1:27
Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel.
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Exodus 12:51
And it came to pass, on that very same day, that the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.
1 Corinthians 10:5 - 10
But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
Hebrews 3:16
For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses?
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Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens.
2 Peter 2:6
And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly.
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2 Peter 2:10
And especially those who walk according to the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise authority. They are presumptuous, self-willed. They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries.
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Exodus 22:28
You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people.
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Zechariah 3:2
And the LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?
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2 Peter 2:12
But these, like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption.
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Genesis 4:3 - 8
And in the process of time it came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the LORD.
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.
1 John 3:12
Not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother's righteous.
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Numbers 31:16
Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
2 Peter 2:15
They have forsaken the right way and gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
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Numbers 16:1 - 3
Now Korah the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and On the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men.
Numbers 16:31 - 35
Now it came to pass, as he finished speaking all these words, that the ground split apart under them.
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Isaiah 57:20
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, When it cannot rest, Whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
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Philippians 3:19
Whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame - who set their mind on earthly things.
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2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
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1 Samuel 2:3
Talk no more so very proudly; Let no arrogance come from your mouth, For the LORD is the God of knowledge; And by Him actions are weighed.
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2 Peter 2:18
For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.
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Proverbs 28:21
To show partiality is not good, Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.
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