1 John 2:19

The false teachers left the church because they never truly belonged. Departure exposed their lack of genuine faith.

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• Acts 20:30Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
• 1 Cor 11:19For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
• Jude 1:19These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
• Luke 8:13They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
• 2 Pet 2:20–21For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
• Matt 13:20–21But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
• 2 Tim 2:19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
• John 6:37–39All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
• Matt 24:24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
• Deut 13:13Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
• Acts 15:24Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:
• John 10:28–30And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
• Mark 13:22For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.
• Job 17:9The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
• Mark 4:5–6And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
• Jer 32:38–40And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
• Heb 10:39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
• 2 Tim 2:10Therefore I endure all things for the elect’s sakes, that they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• Ps 37:28For the LORD loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
• 1 Pet 1:2–5Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
• Rom 9:6Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
• Ps 125:1–2They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
• John 4:14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
• Rom 11:5–6Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
• Jude 1:1Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
• Ps 41:9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
• John 15:2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
• 2 Tim 3:9But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
• Mark 4:16–17And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;

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