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Romans 16:18

James Moffatt - New Testament

Such creatures are no servants of Christ our Lord, they are slaves of their own base desires; with their plausible and pious talk they beguile the hearts of unsuspecting people. But surely not of you!

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I say this to prevent you from being deluded by plausible arguments from anybody;

Destruction is their fate, the belly is their god, they glory in their shame, these men of earthly mind!

Beware of false prophets; they come to you with the garb of sheep but at heart they are ravenous wolves.

and constant friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the Truth. They imagine religion is a paying concern.

in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments — men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

For these people are murmurers, grumbling at their lot in life — they fall in with their own passions, their talk is arrogant, they pay court to men to benefit themselves.

and with the full deceitfulness of evil for those who are doomed to perish, since they refuse to love the Truth that would save them.

These people are stains on your love-feasts; they have no qualms about carousing in your midst, they look after none but themselves — rainless clouds, swept along by the wind, trees in autumn without fruit, doubly dead and so uprooted,

Everybody is selfish, instead of caring for Jesus Christ.

Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.

for false Christs and false prophets will rise and bring forward great signs and wonders, so as to mislead the very elect, — if that were possible.

remember, you will receive from the Lord the inheritance which is your due; serve Christ your Lord and Master,

I disown those practices which very shame conceals from view; I do not go about it craftily; I do not falsify the word of God; I state the truth openly and so commend myself to every man's conscience before God.

I am, for I am not like most, adulterating the word of God; like a man of sincerity, like a man of God, I speak the word in Christ before the very presence of God.

Everyone has heard of your loyalty to the gospel; it makes me rejoice over you. Still, I want you to be experts in good and innocents in evil.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me, and where I am, there shall my servant be also: if anyone serves me, my Father will honour him.

Many false prophets will rise and mislead many.

No one can serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will stand by the one and despise the other — you cannot serve both God and Mammon.

A revelation by Jesus Christ, which God granted him for his servants, to show them what must come to pass very soon; he disclosed it by sending it through his angel to his servant John,

Judas, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, to those who have been called, who are beloved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ:

James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: greeting.

but I am afraid of your thoughts getting seduced from a single devotion to Christ, just as the serpent beguiled Eve with his cunning.

he who serves Christ on these lines, is acceptable to God and esteemed by men.




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