For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.
Parallel translations
- WEB For already some have turned aside after Satan.
- KJV For some are already turned aside after Satan.
- NKJV For some have already turned aside after Satan.
- NASB for some have already turned away to follow Satan.
- NLT For I am afraid that some of them have already gone astray and now follow Satan.
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Quick answer
Paul warns that some have already turned aside to follow Satan, showing the danger is real. His counsel aims to prevent further spiritual shipwreck.
Overview
The sober note for already some have turned aside after Satan explains why Paul gives such practical guidance: the drift into idleness and sin had already claimed some. Following Satan here means abandoning the path of faithful living for his deceptions. The warning underscores that ordinary obedience guards against spiritual ruin, and that Christ's people must remain vigilant.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- 2 Pet 2:2Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.
- Jude 1:4–5For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
- 2 Pet 2:20–22If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
- 1 Tim 1:20Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.
- 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
- Phil 3:18–19For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
- 2 Tim 4:10because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
- Rev 12:9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
- 2 Tim 1:15You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
- 2 Tim 2:18who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some.
- 2 Pet 3:16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
- Matt 4:10“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
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