1 John 2:19

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

Cross-references · 29

• Acts 20:30Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
• 1 Cor 11:19For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.
• Jude 1:19These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.
• Luke 8:13Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
• 2 Pet 2:20–21For 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.
• Matt 13:20–21What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;
• 2 Tim 2:19However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”
• John 6:37–39All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
• Matt 24:24For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
• Deut 13:13certain base fellows have gone out from among you, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known;
• Acts 15:24Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;
• John 10:28–30I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
• Mark 13:22For there will arise false christs and false prophets, and will show signs and wonders, that they may lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
• Job 17:9Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
• Mark 4:5–6Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
• Jer 32:38–40and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
• Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.
• 2 Tim 2:10Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
• Ps 37:28For Yahweh loves justice, and doesn’t forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.
• 1 Pet 1:2–5according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
• Rom 9:6But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
• Ps 125:1–2A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
• John 4:14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal 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, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
• Ps 41:9Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
• John 15:2Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
• 2 Tim 3:9But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
• Mark 4:16–17These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

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