1 John 2:18

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

and every spirit who doesn’t confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God, and this is the spirit of the Antichrist, of whom you have heard that it comes. Now it is in the world already.

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

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.

Cast your burden on Yahweh and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”

But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God, and was going to God,

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

For by him all things were created in the heavens and on the earth, visible things and invisible things, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things have been created through him and for him.

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

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.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

Abram said, “Behold, you have given no children to me: and, behold, one born in my house is my heir.”

They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.

He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

You will come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land. It will happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I am sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.”

For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.

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.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

or does he say it assuredly for our sake? Yes, it was written for our sake, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

For 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,

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

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

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

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.

For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.

Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.

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

But know this: that in the last days, grievous times will come.

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan.

Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he!’ and will lead many astray.

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.

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

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

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,

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

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.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.”