Response To False Teaching

but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;

And dost thou wish to know, O vain man, that the faith apart from the works is dead? — read the full passage →

Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Ye see, then, that out of works is man declared righteous, and not out of faith only;

for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers--especially they of the circumcision-- — read the full passage →

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

And I give thanks to him who enabled me--Christ Jesus our Lord--that he did reckon me stedfast, having put <FI>me<Fi> to the ministration,

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

And this: He who is sowing sparingly, sparingly also shall reap; and he who is sowing in blessings, in blessings also shall reap; — read the full passage →

and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,

And he said to them, `The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath,

And Jesus answering said to them, `Take heed that no one may lead you astray,

these with the Lamb shall make war, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because Lord of lords he is, and King of kings, and those with him are called, and choice, and stedfast.'

And thou--watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus--I going on to Macedonia--that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing,

for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

to know him, and the power of his rising again, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death,

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

for with the heart doth <FI>one<Fi> believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

`Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

`I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved <FI>me<Fi> many things to do, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, in Apollos' being in Corinth, Paul having gone through the upper parts, came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples, — read the full passage →

and he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him;

And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?' — read the full passage →

And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?' — read the full passage →

And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration, — read the full passage →

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

These things spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to the heaven, and said--`Father, the hour hath come, glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee, — read the full passage →

`He who is rejecting me, and not receiving my sayings, hath one who is judging him, the word that I spake, that will judge him in the last day,

No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

and having come near, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and having lifted him up on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and was careful of him;

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

and he hath upon the garment and upon his thigh the name written, `King of kings, and Lord of lords.'

Beloved, all diligence using to write to you concerning the common salvation, I had necessity to write to you, exhorting to agonize for the faith once delivered to the saints,

Little children, let no one lead you astray; he who is doing the righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous,

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' — read the full passage →

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

By faith Abraham hath offered up Isaac, being tried, and the only begotten he did offer up who did receive the promises, — read the full passage →

A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works--who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, — read the full passage →

holding--according to the teaching--to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing,

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away, — read the full passage →

and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

but having food and raiment--with these we shall suffice ourselves;

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of; — read the full passage →

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,

and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety--God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

for this <FI>is<Fi> right and acceptable before God our Saviour,

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you,

Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

for which also I labour, striving according to his working that is working in me in power.

if also ye remain in the faith, being founded and settled, and not moved away from the hope of the good news, which ye heard, which was preached in all the creation that <FI>is<Fi> under the heaven, of which I became--I Paul--a ministrant.

in the body of his flesh through the death, to present you holy, and unblemished, and unblameable before himself,

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;

Only worthily of the good news of the Christ conduct ye yourselves, that, whether having come and seen you, whether being absent I may hear of the things concerning you, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul, striving together for the faith of the good news,

Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants;

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the remission of the trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,

envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.

O thoughtless Galatians, who did bewitch you, not to obey the truth--before whose eyes Jesus Christ was described before among you crucified?

but even if we or a messenger out of heaven may proclaim good news to you different from what we did proclaim to you--anathema let him be!

Paul, an apostle--not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead-- — read the full passage →

Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

And we make known to you, brethren, the grace of God, that hath been given in the assemblies of Macedonia, — read the full passage →

And the all things <FI>are<Fi> of God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and did give to us the ministration of the reconciliation, — read the full passage →

Am not I an apostle? am not I free? Jesus Christ our Lord have I not seen? my work are not ye in the Lord? — read the full passage →

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a secret, that God foreordained before the ages to our glory,

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

that ye may receive her in the Lord, as doth become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you--for she also became a leader of many, and of myself.

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

or he who is exhorting--`In the exhortation!' he who is sharing--`In simplicity!' he who is leading--`In diligence?' he who is doing kindness--`In cheerfulness.'

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →