2 Timothy 2:16

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

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.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

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

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

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.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

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.

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.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

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.

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

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

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.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

Therefore I will give their wives to others and their fields to those who will possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

The wind will feed all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Surely then you will be ashamed and confounded for all your wickedness.

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.

They didn’t dare to ask him any more questions.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

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,

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

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

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

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

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

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.

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

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

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;

One of his heads looked like it had been wounded fatally. His fatal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled at the beast.

He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.