Matthew 24:4 Cross References - WPNT

⁴ So in answer Jesus said to them: “Watch out, so that no one deceives you.

⁵ So by way of an answer to them Jesus began by saying: “Take care that no one deceives you. ⁶ Because many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he’, and will deceive many.

²² because false christs and false prophets will be raised up, and they will show signs and wonders so as to even mislead the elect, if that were possible.

⁸ So He said: “Be careful, so as not to be deceived, because many will come in my name saying: ‘I am’ and ‘The time is at hand’. Therefore do not go after them.

¹³ Such men are really false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into ‘apostles’ of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder, because Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. ¹⁵ So it is no great thing if his servants also masquerade as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

¹⁴ so that we no longer be ‘infants’, tossed about as by waves and carried off by every doctrinal fad, through the underhanded dealings of the people who collect the fee for the error;

⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of the disobedience.

⁸ Be careful that no one captures you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world and not according to Christ.

¹⁸ Nor let anyone disqualify you, taking pleasure in a subservience and devotion to the angels, ‘taking possession’ of things that he has not seen, being puffed up by his carnal mind to no useful purpose,

³ Don’t let anyone deceive you by any means; because that day cannot come unless the rebellion comes first and the man of sin is revealed, the son of ruin,

¹ However, there were also false prophets among the people, just as, indeed, there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Owner who bought them (bringing on themselves swift destruction). ² And many will follow their licentious ways, because of which the way of the Truth will be defamed. ³ And in covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; since way back the judgment for such people is not slack, and their destruction will not sleep.

¹ Dear ones, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.