Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
Parallel translations
- WEB knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.
- BSB knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.
- NKJV knowing that such a person is warped and sinning, being self-condemned.
- NASB knowing that such a person has deviated from what is right and is sinning, being self-condemned.
- NLT For people like that have turned away from the truth, and their own sins condemn them.
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Quick answer
Such a person is warped and sinful, standing self-condemned. It matters because persistent, unrepentant divisiveness reveals a corrupted heart and justifies the church's action.
Overview
Paul explains why the divisive person is to be avoided: he is 'perverted,' sins knowingly, and condemns himself by rejecting repeated correction. The condemnation is not arbitrary but the result of his own stubborn choice. This protects the integrity of the discipline described in verse 10.
Cross-references & the web
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- Heb 10:26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
- Luke 19:22And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
- Matt 25:26–28His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
- John 3:18He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
- 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:
- Acts 13:46Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
- Rom 3:19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
- Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
- Titus 1:11Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
- 1 Tim 1:19–20Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
- 2 Tim 2:14Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.
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