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- Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.
- For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
- For wicked and deceitful mouths open against me; they speak against me with lying tongues. …
- See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ.
- But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
- Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
- …in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
- I say this so that no one will deceive you by smooth rhetoric.
- By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
- Consume them in wrath; consume them till they are no more, so it may be known to the ends of the earth that God rules over Jacob. Selah
- Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.
- No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the LORD.
- “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.