17 I beg you, brothers, to be on the watch for those who introduce divisions and difficulties, in opposition to the instruction that you were given, and to avoid them.
18 Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.
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Romans 16:17-18
1 Corinthians 2:14
14 A material man will not accept what the Spirit of God offers. It seems mere folly to him, and he cannot understand it, because it takes spiritual insight to see its true value.
1 John 2:18
18 Children, it is the last hour. You have heard that Antichrist is coming, and many Antichrists have indeed appeared. So we may be sure that it is the last hour.
John 1:1
1 In the beginning the Word existed. The Word was with God, and the Word was divine.
Romans 8:9-11
9 But you are not physical but spiritual, if God's Spirit has really taken possession of you; for unless a man has Christ's spirit, he does not belong to Christ.
10 But if Christ is in your hearts, though your bodies are dead in consequence of sin, your spirits have life in consequence of uprightness.
11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead has taken possession of you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give your mortal bodies life through his Spirit that has taken possession of you.
2 Peter 1:20-21
Matthew 7:15-17
James 2:19
19 Do you believe in one God? Very well! So do the demons, and they shudder.
Hebrews 4:12
12 For the message of God is a living and active force, sharper than any double-edged sword, piercing through soul and spirit, and joints and marrow, and keen in judging the thoughts and purposes of the mind.
1 Timothy 4:1
1 The Spirit distinctly says that in later times some will turn away from the faith, and devote their attention to deceitful spirits and the things that demons teach
1 John 4:1
1 Dear friends, do not believe every inspired utterance, but test the utterances to see whether they come from God, for many false prophets have come out into the world.
2 Peter 2:1
1 There were false prophets too among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive sects and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2 John 1:7-11
7 For many impostors have gone out into the world—men who do not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in human form. That is the mark of the impostor and the Antichrist.
8 Look out for yourselves, take care not to lose what we have worked for, but make sure that you are paid for it in full.
9 Anyone who goes too far and does not keep to the teaching of Christ has not God. It is the man who holds to the teaching who has both the Father and the Son.
10 If anyone comes to you without bringing this teaching, do not let him come into the house or bid him good morning.
11 For anyone who bids him good morning shares in his wicked work.