Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
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- WEB Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
- BSB Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
- NKJV Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
- NASB and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things to draw away the disciples after them.
- NLT Even some men from your own group will rise up and distort the truth in order to draw a following.
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Quick answer
Even from among the elders themselves, men will arise teaching perverse things to draw away disciples. Danger will come from within as well as without.
Overview
Paul cautions that distortion of the truth will spring up inside the church, as leaders seek to gather followers to themselves rather than to Christ. This inward threat is often more subtle and damaging than outward attack. The warning calls for ongoing watchfulness, doctrinal faithfulness, and a refusal to follow any teaching that turns hearts from the Lord.
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- 2 Tim 4:3–4For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
- 1 Tim 1:19–20Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
- 1 Jn 2:19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
- Prov 23:33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
- Prov 19:1Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
- Acts 11:26And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.
- 2 Jn 1:7For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
- 1 Cor 1:12–15Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
- Gal 6:12–13As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
- Acts 5:36–37For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.
- 2 Tim 2:17–18And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
- Matt 23:15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
- 1 Tim 6:5Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
- Isa 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
- 1 Tim 5:13And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
- Acts 21:38Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
- Jude 1:4–16For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Pet 2:1–3But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
- Matt 26:21–25And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
- Rev 2:6But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitanes, which I also hate.
- 2 Pet 2:18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
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