1 Timothy 1:19 There are some, you know, who by relaxing their grip and thinking anything goes have made a thorough mess of their faith. Hymenaeus and Alexander are two of ...

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The Message - There are some, you know, who by relaxing their grip and thinking anything goes have made a thorough mess of their faith. Hymenaeus and Alexander are two of them. I let them wander off to Satan to be taught a lesson or two about not blaspheming.
新标点和合本 - 常存信心和无亏的良心。有人丢弃良心，就在真道上如同船破坏了一般。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 常存信心和无愧的良心。有些人丢弃良心，在信仰上触了礁；
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 常存信心和无愧的良心。有些人丢弃良心，在信仰上触了礁；
当代译本 - 你要持守信心和无愧的良心。有些人丧掉良心，结果他们的信仰就像船触了礁，
圣经新译本 - 常常存着信心和无愧的良心。有些人丢弃良心，就在信仰上失落了。
中文标准译本 - 持守信仰和无愧的良心。有些人弃绝了这样的良心，就在信仰上遭到了毁灭，
现代标点和合本 - 常存信心和无亏的良心。有人丢弃良心，就在真道上如同船破坏了一般。
和合本（拼音版） - 常存信心和无亏的良心；有人丢弃良心，就在真道上如同船破坏了一般。
New International Version - holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith.
New International Reader's Version - Then you will hold on to faith. You will hold on to a good sense of what is right and wrong. Some have not accepted this knowledge of right and wrong. So they have destroyed their faith. They are like a ship that has sunk.
English Standard Version - holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith,
New Living Translation - Cling to your faith in Christ, and keep your conscience clear. For some people have deliberately violated their consciences; as a result, their faith has been shipwrecked.
Christian Standard Bible - having faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and have shipwrecked the faith.
New American Standard Bible - keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith.
New King James Version - having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck,
Amplified Bible - keeping your faith [leaning completely on God with absolute trust and confidence in His guidance] and having a good conscience; for some [people] have rejected [their moral compass] and have made a shipwreck of their faith.
American Standard Version - holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith:
King James Version - Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
New English Translation - To do this you must hold firmly to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck in regard to the faith.
World English Bible - holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,
新標點和合本 - 常存信心和無虧的良心。有人丟棄良心，就在真道上如同船破壞了一般。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 常存信心和無愧的良心。有些人丟棄良心，在信仰上觸了礁；
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 常存信心和無愧的良心。有些人丟棄良心，在信仰上觸了礁；
當代譯本 - 你要持守信心和無愧的良心。有些人喪掉良心，結果他們的信仰就像船觸了礁，
聖經新譯本 - 常常存著信心和無愧的良心。有些人丟棄良心，就在信仰上失落了。
呂振中譯本 - 持守着正當的信仰和純善的良知。有些人把良知推開，就在信仰的事上破了船；
中文標準譯本 - 持守信仰和無愧的良心。有些人棄絕了這樣的良心，就在信仰上遭到了毀滅，
現代標點和合本 - 常存信心和無虧的良心。有人丟棄良心，就在真道上如同船破壞了一般。
文理和合譯本 - 守乎信與懿美之良、蓋有棄此者、論及其信、則如舟之破壞然、
文理委辦譯本 - 良心操信主之道、蓋有人拒此、背道以致沉淪、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 信德具備、良心無虧、有人棄此良心、則失其信、若舟破沈水然、則失其信若舟破沈水然原文作則其信之舟破矣
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 務望篤守信德、確保良心為要；頗有數輩因良心之泯滅、而信德亦隨以傾覆；
Nueva Versión Internacional - y mantengas la fe y una buena conciencia. Por no hacerle caso a su conciencia, algunos han naufragado en la fe.
현대인의 성경 - 믿음과 착한 양심을 가지시오. 어떤 사람들은 이 양심을 저버렸고 믿음을 완전히 잃어버렸습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - сохраняя свою веру и чистую совесть. Некоторые ее отвергли, и в результате их вера потерпела кораблекрушение.
Восточный перевод - сохраняя свою веру и чистую совесть. Некоторые её отвергли, и в результате их вера потерпела кораблекрушение.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - сохраняя свою веру и чистую совесть. Некоторые её отвергли, и в результате их вера потерпела кораблекрушение.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - сохраняя свою веру и чистую совесть. Некоторые её отвергли, и в результате их вера потерпела кораблекрушение.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - avec foi et avec cette bonne conscience dont certains se sont écartés au point que leur foi a fait naufrage.
リビングバイブル - キリストを信じる信仰を、しっかり守りなさい。また、正しいと思うことは進んで行い、いつも良心に恥じない歩みをしなさい。悪いことと知りながら、良心に逆らって、あえてそれを行う人がいますが、神をないがしろにするような人がたちまちキリストへの信仰を失ったとしても、少しも不思議はありません。
Nestle Aland 28 - ἔχων πίστιν καὶ ἀγαθὴν συνείδησιν, ἥν τινες ἀπωσάμενοι περὶ τὴν πίστιν ἐναυάγησαν,
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἔχων πίστιν καὶ ἀγαθὴν συνείδησιν, ἥν τινες ἀπωσάμενοι, περὶ τὴν πίστιν ἐναυάγησαν;
Nova Versão Internacional - mantendo a fé e a boa consciência que alguns rejeitaram e, por isso, naufragaram na fé.
Hoffnung für alle - Bleib in deinem Glauben fest und bewahr dir ein reines Gewissen. Denn wie du weißt, haben einige ihr Gewissen zum Schweigen gebracht, und deshalb hat ihr Glaube Schiffbruch erlitten.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Giữ vững đức tin trong Chúa Cứu Thế và lương tâm trong sạch. Đã có người không giữ lương tâm trong sạch nên đức tin bị chìm đắm.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - จงยึดมั่นในความเชื่อและจิตสำนึกอันดี บางคนละทิ้งข้อนี้ทำให้ความเชื่อของตนอับปาง
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - จงรักษาความเชื่อและมโนธรรมที่ดีไว้ มีบางคนปฏิเสธมโนธรรม ดังนั้นความเชื่อของเขาจึงได้สลายไป

交叉引用

2 Timothy 3:1 - Don’t be naive. There are difficult times ahead. As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. They’ll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they’re animals. Stay clear of these people.
2 Timothy 3:6 - These are the kind of people who smooth-talk themselves into the homes of unstable and needy women and take advantage of them; women who, depressed by their sinfulness, take up with every new religious fad that calls itself “truth.” They get exploited every time and never really learn. These men are like those old Egyptian frauds Jannes and Jambres, who challenged Moses. They were rejects from the faith, twisted in their thinking, defying truth itself. But nothing will come of these latest impostors. Everyone will see through them, just as people saw through that Egyptian hoax.
2 Peter 2:12 - These people are nothing but brute beasts, born in the wild, predators on the prowl. In the very act of bringing down others with their ignorant blasphemies, they themselves will be brought down, losers in the end. Their evil will boomerang on them. They’re so despicable and addicted to pleasure that they indulge in wild parties, carousing in broad daylight. They’re obsessed with adultery, compulsive in sin, seducing every vulnerable soul they come upon. Their specialty is greed, and they’re experts at it. Dead souls!
2 Peter 2:15 - They’ve left the main road and are directionless, having taken the way of Balaam, son of Beor, the prophet who turned profiteer, a connoisseur of evil. But Balaam was stopped in his wayward tracks: A dumb animal spoke in a human voice and prevented the prophet’s craziness.
2 Peter 2:17 - There’s nothing to these people—they’re dried-up fountains, storm-scattered clouds, headed for a black hole in hell. They are loudmouths, full of hot air, but still they’re dangerous. Men and women who have recently escaped from a deviant life are most susceptible to their brand of seduction. They promise these newcomers freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for if they’re addicted to corruption—and they are—they’re enslaved.
2 Peter 2:20 - If they’ve escaped from the slum of sin by experiencing our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ, and then slid back into that same old life again, they’re worse than if they had never left. Better not to have started out on the straight road to God than to start out and then turn back, repudiating the experience and the holy command. They prove the point of the proverbs, “A dog goes back to its own vomit” and “A scrubbed-up pig heads for the mud.”
1 Timothy 4:1 - The Spirit makes it clear that as time goes on, some are going to give up on the faith and chase after demonic illusions put forth by professional liars. These liars have lied so well and for so long that they’ve lost their capacity for truth. They will tell you not to get married. They’ll tell you not to eat this or that food—perfectly good food God created to be eaten heartily and with thanksgiving by believers who know better! Everything God created is good, and to be received with thanks. Nothing is to be sneered at and thrown out. God’s Word and our prayers make every item in creation holy.
Matthew 6:27 - “Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch? All this time and money wasted on fashion—do you think it makes that much difference? Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them.
Galatians 5:4 - I suspect you would never intend this, but this is what happens. When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace. Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit. For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.
Galatians 1:6 - I can’t believe how you waver—how easily you have turned traitor to him who called you by the grace of Christ by embracing an alternative message! It is not a minor variation, you know; it is completely other, an alien message, a no-message, a lie about God. Those who are provoking this agitation among you are turning the Message of Christ on its head. Let me be blunt: If one of us—even if an angel from heaven!—were to preach something other than what we preached originally, let him be cursed. I said it once; I’ll say it again: If anyone, regardless of reputation or credentials, preaches something other than what you received originally, let him be cursed.
Hebrews 6:4 - Once people have seen the light, gotten a taste of heaven and been part of the work of the Holy Spirit, once they’ve personally experienced the sheer goodness of God’s Word and the powers breaking in on us—if then they turn their backs on it, washing their hands of the whole thing, well, they can’t start over as if nothing happened. That’s impossible. Why, they’ve re-crucified Jesus! They’ve repudiated him in public! Parched ground that soaks up the rain and then produces an abundance of carrots and corn for its gardener gets God’s “Well done!” But if it produces weeds and thistles, it’s more likely to get cussed out. Fields like that are burned, not harvested.
Revelation 3:8 - “I see what you’ve done. Now see what I’ve done. I’ve opened a door before you that no one can slam shut. You don’t have much strength, I know that; you used what you had to keep my Word. You didn’t deny me when times were rough.
2 Peter 2:1 - But there were also lying prophets among the people then, just as there will be lying religious teachers among you. They’ll smuggle in destructive divisions, pitting you against each other—biting the hand of the One who gave them a chance to have their lives back! They’ve put themselves on a fast downhill slide to destruction, but not before they recruit a crowd of mixed-up followers who can’t tell right from wrong.
2 Peter 2:2 - They give the way of truth a bad name. They’re only out for themselves. They’ll say anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you. They won’t, of course, get by with it. They’ll come to a bad end, for God has never just stood by and let that kind of thing go on.
Jude 1:12 - These people are eyesores at your love feasts as you worship and eat together. They’re giving you a black eye—carousing shamelessly, grabbing anything that isn’t nailed down. They’re— Puffs of smoke pushed by gusts of wind; late autumn trees stripped clean of leaf and fruit, Doubly dead, pulled up by the roots; wild ocean waves leaving nothing on the beach but the foam of their shame; Lost stars in outer space on their way to the black hole.
1 Timothy 1:5 - The whole point of what we’re urging is simply love—love uncontaminated by self-interest and counterfeit faith, a life open to God. Those who fail to keep to this point soon wander off into dead ends of gossip. They set themselves up as experts on religious issues, but haven’t the remotest idea of what they’re holding forth with such imposing eloquence.
Revelation 3:10 - “Because you kept my Word in passionate patience, I’ll keep you safe in the time of testing that will be here soon, and all over the earth, every man, woman, and child put to the test.
1 Timothy 6:9 - But if it’s only money these leaders are after, they’ll self-destruct in no time. Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble. Going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever after.

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The Message - There are some, you know, who by relaxing their grip and thinking anything goes have made a thorough mess of their faith. Hymenaeus and Alexander are two of them. I let them wander off to Satan to be taught a lesson or two about not blaspheming.
新标点和合本 - 常存信心和无亏的良心。有人丢弃良心，就在真道上如同船破坏了一般。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 常存信心和无愧的良心。有些人丢弃良心，在信仰上触了礁；
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 常存信心和无愧的良心。有些人丢弃良心，在信仰上触了礁；
当代译本 - 你要持守信心和无愧的良心。有些人丧掉良心，结果他们的信仰就像船触了礁，
圣经新译本 - 常常存着信心和无愧的良心。有些人丢弃良心，就在信仰上失落了。
中文标准译本 - 持守信仰和无愧的良心。有些人弃绝了这样的良心，就在信仰上遭到了毁灭，
现代标点和合本 - 常存信心和无亏的良心。有人丢弃良心，就在真道上如同船破坏了一般。
和合本（拼音版） - 常存信心和无亏的良心；有人丢弃良心，就在真道上如同船破坏了一般。
New International Version - holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith.
New International Reader's Version - Then you will hold on to faith. You will hold on to a good sense of what is right and wrong. Some have not accepted this knowledge of right and wrong. So they have destroyed their faith. They are like a ship that has sunk.
English Standard Version - holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith,
New Living Translation - Cling to your faith in Christ, and keep your conscience clear. For some people have deliberately violated their consciences; as a result, their faith has been shipwrecked.
Christian Standard Bible - having faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and have shipwrecked the faith.
New American Standard Bible - keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith.
New King James Version - having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck,
Amplified Bible - keeping your faith [leaning completely on God with absolute trust and confidence in His guidance] and having a good conscience; for some [people] have rejected [their moral compass] and have made a shipwreck of their faith.
American Standard Version - holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith:
King James Version - Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:
New English Translation - To do this you must hold firmly to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck in regard to the faith.
World English Bible - holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,
新標點和合本 - 常存信心和無虧的良心。有人丟棄良心，就在真道上如同船破壞了一般。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 常存信心和無愧的良心。有些人丟棄良心，在信仰上觸了礁；
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 常存信心和無愧的良心。有些人丟棄良心，在信仰上觸了礁；
當代譯本 - 你要持守信心和無愧的良心。有些人喪掉良心，結果他們的信仰就像船觸了礁，
聖經新譯本 - 常常存著信心和無愧的良心。有些人丟棄良心，就在信仰上失落了。
呂振中譯本 - 持守着正當的信仰和純善的良知。有些人把良知推開，就在信仰的事上破了船；
中文標準譯本 - 持守信仰和無愧的良心。有些人棄絕了這樣的良心，就在信仰上遭到了毀滅，
現代標點和合本 - 常存信心和無虧的良心。有人丟棄良心，就在真道上如同船破壞了一般。
文理和合譯本 - 守乎信與懿美之良、蓋有棄此者、論及其信、則如舟之破壞然、
文理委辦譯本 - 良心操信主之道、蓋有人拒此、背道以致沉淪、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 信德具備、良心無虧、有人棄此良心、則失其信、若舟破沈水然、則失其信若舟破沈水然原文作則其信之舟破矣
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 務望篤守信德、確保良心為要；頗有數輩因良心之泯滅、而信德亦隨以傾覆；
Nueva Versión Internacional - y mantengas la fe y una buena conciencia. Por no hacerle caso a su conciencia, algunos han naufragado en la fe.
현대인의 성경 - 믿음과 착한 양심을 가지시오. 어떤 사람들은 이 양심을 저버렸고 믿음을 완전히 잃어버렸습니다.
Новый Русский Перевод - сохраняя свою веру и чистую совесть. Некоторые ее отвергли, и в результате их вера потерпела кораблекрушение.
Восточный перевод - сохраняя свою веру и чистую совесть. Некоторые её отвергли, и в результате их вера потерпела кораблекрушение.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - сохраняя свою веру и чистую совесть. Некоторые её отвергли, и в результате их вера потерпела кораблекрушение.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - сохраняя свою веру и чистую совесть. Некоторые её отвергли, и в результате их вера потерпела кораблекрушение.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - avec foi et avec cette bonne conscience dont certains se sont écartés au point que leur foi a fait naufrage.
リビングバイブル - キリストを信じる信仰を、しっかり守りなさい。また、正しいと思うことは進んで行い、いつも良心に恥じない歩みをしなさい。悪いことと知りながら、良心に逆らって、あえてそれを行う人がいますが、神をないがしろにするような人がたちまちキリストへの信仰を失ったとしても、少しも不思議はありません。
Nestle Aland 28 - ἔχων πίστιν καὶ ἀγαθὴν συνείδησιν, ἥν τινες ἀπωσάμενοι περὶ τὴν πίστιν ἐναυάγησαν,
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἔχων πίστιν καὶ ἀγαθὴν συνείδησιν, ἥν τινες ἀπωσάμενοι, περὶ τὴν πίστιν ἐναυάγησαν;
Nova Versão Internacional - mantendo a fé e a boa consciência que alguns rejeitaram e, por isso, naufragaram na fé.
Hoffnung für alle - Bleib in deinem Glauben fest und bewahr dir ein reines Gewissen. Denn wie du weißt, haben einige ihr Gewissen zum Schweigen gebracht, und deshalb hat ihr Glaube Schiffbruch erlitten.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Giữ vững đức tin trong Chúa Cứu Thế và lương tâm trong sạch. Đã có người không giữ lương tâm trong sạch nên đức tin bị chìm đắm.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - จงยึดมั่นในความเชื่อและจิตสำนึกอันดี บางคนละทิ้งข้อนี้ทำให้ความเชื่อของตนอับปาง
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - จงรักษาความเชื่อและมโนธรรมที่ดีไว้ มีบางคนปฏิเสธมโนธรรม ดังนั้นความเชื่อของเขาจึงได้สลายไป

2 Timothy 3:1 - Don’t be naive. There are difficult times ahead. As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. They’ll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they’re animals. Stay clear of these people.
2 Timothy 3:6 - These are the kind of people who smooth-talk themselves into the homes of unstable and needy women and take advantage of them; women who, depressed by their sinfulness, take up with every new religious fad that calls itself “truth.” They get exploited every time and never really learn. These men are like those old Egyptian frauds Jannes and Jambres, who challenged Moses. They were rejects from the faith, twisted in their thinking, defying truth itself. But nothing will come of these latest impostors. Everyone will see through them, just as people saw through that Egyptian hoax.
2 Peter 2:12 - These people are nothing but brute beasts, born in the wild, predators on the prowl. In the very act of bringing down others with their ignorant blasphemies, they themselves will be brought down, losers in the end. Their evil will boomerang on them. They’re so despicable and addicted to pleasure that they indulge in wild parties, carousing in broad daylight. They’re obsessed with adultery, compulsive in sin, seducing every vulnerable soul they come upon. Their specialty is greed, and they’re experts at it. Dead souls!
2 Peter 2:15 - They’ve left the main road and are directionless, having taken the way of Balaam, son of Beor, the prophet who turned profiteer, a connoisseur of evil. But Balaam was stopped in his wayward tracks: A dumb animal spoke in a human voice and prevented the prophet’s craziness.
2 Peter 2:17 - There’s nothing to these people—they’re dried-up fountains, storm-scattered clouds, headed for a black hole in hell. They are loudmouths, full of hot air, but still they’re dangerous. Men and women who have recently escaped from a deviant life are most susceptible to their brand of seduction. They promise these newcomers freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for if they’re addicted to corruption—and they are—they’re enslaved.
2 Peter 2:20 - If they’ve escaped from the slum of sin by experiencing our Master and Savior, Jesus Christ, and then slid back into that same old life again, they’re worse than if they had never left. Better not to have started out on the straight road to God than to start out and then turn back, repudiating the experience and the holy command. They prove the point of the proverbs, “A dog goes back to its own vomit” and “A scrubbed-up pig heads for the mud.”
1 Timothy 4:1 - The Spirit makes it clear that as time goes on, some are going to give up on the faith and chase after demonic illusions put forth by professional liars. These liars have lied so well and for so long that they’ve lost their capacity for truth. They will tell you not to get married. They’ll tell you not to eat this or that food—perfectly good food God created to be eaten heartily and with thanksgiving by believers who know better! Everything God created is good, and to be received with thanks. Nothing is to be sneered at and thrown out. God’s Word and our prayers make every item in creation holy.
Matthew 6:27 - “Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch? All this time and money wasted on fashion—do you think it makes that much difference? Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them.
Galatians 5:4 - I suspect you would never intend this, but this is what happens. When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace. Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit. For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.
Galatians 1:6 - I can’t believe how you waver—how easily you have turned traitor to him who called you by the grace of Christ by embracing an alternative message! It is not a minor variation, you know; it is completely other, an alien message, a no-message, a lie about God. Those who are provoking this agitation among you are turning the Message of Christ on its head. Let me be blunt: If one of us—even if an angel from heaven!—were to preach something other than what we preached originally, let him be cursed. I said it once; I’ll say it again: If anyone, regardless of reputation or credentials, preaches something other than what you received originally, let him be cursed.
Hebrews 6:4 - Once people have seen the light, gotten a taste of heaven and been part of the work of the Holy Spirit, once they’ve personally experienced the sheer goodness of God’s Word and the powers breaking in on us—if then they turn their backs on it, washing their hands of the whole thing, well, they can’t start over as if nothing happened. That’s impossible. Why, they’ve re-crucified Jesus! They’ve repudiated him in public! Parched ground that soaks up the rain and then produces an abundance of carrots and corn for its gardener gets God’s “Well done!” But if it produces weeds and thistles, it’s more likely to get cussed out. Fields like that are burned, not harvested.
Revelation 3:8 - “I see what you’ve done. Now see what I’ve done. I’ve opened a door before you that no one can slam shut. You don’t have much strength, I know that; you used what you had to keep my Word. You didn’t deny me when times were rough.
2 Peter 2:1 - But there were also lying prophets among the people then, just as there will be lying religious teachers among you. They’ll smuggle in destructive divisions, pitting you against each other—biting the hand of the One who gave them a chance to have their lives back! They’ve put themselves on a fast downhill slide to destruction, but not before they recruit a crowd of mixed-up followers who can’t tell right from wrong.
2 Peter 2:2 - They give the way of truth a bad name. They’re only out for themselves. They’ll say anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you. They won’t, of course, get by with it. They’ll come to a bad end, for God has never just stood by and let that kind of thing go on.
Jude 1:12 - These people are eyesores at your love feasts as you worship and eat together. They’re giving you a black eye—carousing shamelessly, grabbing anything that isn’t nailed down. They’re— Puffs of smoke pushed by gusts of wind; late autumn trees stripped clean of leaf and fruit, Doubly dead, pulled up by the roots; wild ocean waves leaving nothing on the beach but the foam of their shame; Lost stars in outer space on their way to the black hole.
1 Timothy 1:5 - The whole point of what we’re urging is simply love—love uncontaminated by self-interest and counterfeit faith, a life open to God. Those who fail to keep to this point soon wander off into dead ends of gossip. They set themselves up as experts on religious issues, but haven’t the remotest idea of what they’re holding forth with such imposing eloquence.
Revelation 3:10 - “Because you kept my Word in passionate patience, I’ll keep you safe in the time of testing that will be here soon, and all over the earth, every man, woman, and child put to the test.
1 Timothy 6:9 - But if it’s only money these leaders are after, they’ll self-destruct in no time. Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble. Going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever after.