1 Timothy 4:1

Good News Translation

The Spirit says clearly that some people will abandon the faith in later times; they will obey lying spirits and follow the teachings of demons.

Cross References

Genesis 3:13

The Lord God asked the woman, “Why did you do this?” She replied, “The snake tricked me into eating it.”

1 Kings 13:18

Then the old prophet from Bethel said to him, “I, too, am a prophet just like you, and at the Lord's command an angel told me to take you home with me and offer you my hospitality.” But the old prophet was lying.

Isaiah 2:2

In days to come the mountain where the Temple stands will be the highest one of all, towering above all the hills. Many nations will come streaming to it,

Jeremiah 23:26

How much longer will those prophets mislead my people with the lies they have invented?

Jeremiah 48:47

But in days to come the Lord will make Moab prosperous again. All of this is what the Lord has said will happen to Moab.

Jeremiah 49:39

But later on I will make the people of Elam prosperous again. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Ezekiel 1:3

There in Babylonia beside the Chebar River, I heard the Lord speak to me, and I felt his power.

Ezekiel 38:16

You will attack my people Israel like a storm moving across the land. When the time comes, I will send you to invade my land in order to show the nations who I am, to show my holiness by what I do through you.

Daniel 10:14

I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the future. This is a vision about the future.”

Hosea 3:5

But the time will come when the people of Israel will once again turn to the Lord their God and to a descendant of David their king. Then they will fear the Lord and will receive his good gifts.

Micah 4:1

In days to come the mountain where the Temple stands will be the highest one of all, towering above all the hills. Many nations will come streaming to it,

Numbers 24:14

Balaam said to Balak, “Now I am going back to my own people, but before I go, I am warning you what the people of Israel will do to your people in the future.”

Matthew 18:7

How terrible for the world that there are things that make people lose their faith! Such things will always happen—but how terrible for the one who causes them!

Luke 17:1

Jesus said to his disciples, “Things that make people fall into sin are bound to happen, but how terrible for the one who makes them happen!

John 16:13

When, however, the Spirit comes, who reveals the truth about God, he will lead you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own authority, but he will speak of what he hears and will tell you of things to come.

Acts 13:2

While they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said to them, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul, to do the work to which I have called them.”

Acts 17:18

Certain Epicurean and Stoic teachers also debated with him. Some of them asked, “What is this ignorant show-off trying to say?” Others answered, “He seems to be talking about foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was preaching about Jesus and the resurrection.

Acts 20:23

I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit has warned me that prison and troubles wait for me.

Acts 21:11

He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied up his own feet and hands with it, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: The owner of this belt will be tied up in this way by the Jews in Jerusalem, and they will hand him over to the Gentiles.”

Acts 28:25

So they left, disagreeing among themselves, after Paul had said this one thing: “How well the Holy Spirit spoke through the prophet Isaiah to your ancestors!

1 Corinthians 10:20

No! What I am saying is that what is sacrificed on pagan altars is offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be partners with demons.

1 Corinthians 11:19

No doubt there must be divisions among you so that the ones who are in the right may be clearly seen.)

1 Corinthians 12:11

But it is one and the same Spirit who does all this; as he wishes, he gives a different gift to each person.

1 Corinthians 2:10

But it was to us that God made known his secret by means of his Spirit. The Spirit searches everything, even the hidden depths of God's purposes.

2 Corinthians 11:3

I am afraid that your minds will be corrupted and that you will abandon your full and pure devotion to Christ—in the same way that Eve was deceived by the snake's clever lies.

Deuteronomy 32:29

They fail to see why they were defeated; they cannot understand what happened.

Deuteronomy 4:30

When you are in trouble and all those things happen to you, then you will finally turn to the Lord and obey him.

Colossians 2:18

Do not allow yourselves to be condemned by anyone who claims to be superior because of special visions and who insists on false humility and the worship of angels. For no reason at all, such people are all puffed up by their human way of thinking

2 Timothy 3:13

and evil persons and impostors will keep on going from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.

2 Timothy 4:4

They will turn away from listening to the truth and give their attention to legends.

James 3:15

Such wisdom does not come down from heaven; it belongs to the world, it is unspiritual and demonic.

1 Peter 1:20

He had been chosen by God before the creation of the world and was revealed in these last days for your sake.

2 Peter 2:1

False prophets appeared in the past among the people, and in the same way false teachers will appear among you. They will bring in destructive, untrue doctrines, and will deny the Master who redeemed them, and so they will bring upon themselves sudden destruction.

2 Peter 3:3

First of all, you must understand that in the last days some people will appear whose lives are controlled by their own lusts. They will make fun of you

1 John 2:18

My children, the end is near! You were told that the Enemy of Christ would come; and now many enemies of Christ have already appeared, and so we know that the end is near.

1 John 4:6

But we belong to God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever does not belong to God does not listen to us. This, then, is how we can tell the difference between the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

Jude 1:18

They said to you, “When the last days come, people will appear who will make fun of you, people who follow their own godless desires.”

Jude 1:4

For some godless people have slipped in unnoticed among us, persons who distort the message about the grace of our God in order to excuse their immoral ways, and who reject Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord. Long ago the Scriptures predicted the condemnation they have received.

Revelation 13:14

And it deceived all the people living on earth by means of the miracles which it was allowed to perform in the presence of the first beast. The beast told them to build an image in honor of the beast that had been wounded by the sword and yet lived.

Revelation 16:14

They are the spirits of demons that perform miracles. These three spirits go out to all the kings of the world, to bring them together for the battle on the great Day of Almighty God.

Revelation 18:2

He cried out in a loud voice: “She has fallen! Great Babylon has fallen! She is now haunted by demons and unclean spirits; all kinds of filthy and hateful birds live in her.

Revelation 18:23

Never again will the light of a lamp be seen in you; no more will the voices of brides and grooms be heard in you. Your merchants were the most powerful in all the world, and with your false magic you deceived all the peoples of the world!”

Revelation 19:20

The beast was taken prisoner, together with the false prophet who had performed miracles in his presence. (It was by those miracles that he had deceived those who had the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped the image of the beast.) The beast and the false prophet were both thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Revelation 2:11

“If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches! “Those who win the victory will not be hurt by the second death.

Revelation 2:17

“If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches! “To those who win the victory I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give each of them a white stone on which is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.

Revelation 2:29

“If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches!

Revelation 2:7

“If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches! “To those who win the victory I will give the right to eat the fruit of the tree of life that grows in the Garden of God.

Revelation 20:10

Then the Devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Revelation 20:8

and he will go out to deceive the nations scattered over the whole world, that is, Gog and Magog. Satan will bring them all together for battle, as many as the grains of sand on the seashore.

Revelation 3:13

“If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches!

Revelation 3:22

“If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches!”

Revelation 3:6

“If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches!

Revelation 9:20

The rest of the human race, all those who had not been killed by these plagues, did not turn away from what they themselves had made. They did not stop worshiping demons, nor the idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see, hear, or walk.