Better the poor walking in integrity than one perverse of speech who is a fool.
Acts 20:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even from among your own selves men will come to the front who, by saying perverse (distorted and corrupt) things, will endeavor to draw away the disciples after them [to their own party]. American Standard Version (1901) and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. Common English Bible Some of your own people will distort the word in order to lure followers after them. Catholic Public Domain Version And from among yourselves, men will rise up, speaking perverse things in order to entice disciples after them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. |
Better the poor walking in integrity than one perverse of speech who is a fool.
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies; your tongue mutters wickedness.
When they fall, they shall receive a little help, and many shall join them insincerely.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cross sea and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
and when he had found him he brought him to Antioch. So it was that for an entire year they met with the church and taught a great many people, and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christians.”
Then you are not the Egyptian who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?”
For such boasters are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
Besides that, they learn to be idle, gadding about from house to house, and they are not merely idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not say.
and wrangling among those who are depraved in mind and bereft of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
For they speak bombastic nonsense, and with debased desires of the flesh they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.
They 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 by going out they made it plain that none of them belongs to us.
Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh; any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist!
Yet this is to your credit: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.