For so says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets who are in your midst deceive you, and ones divining to you. And do not listen to their dreams which you dream.
If a man walks with wind, and he lies in deceit, saying, I will drop words to you for wine and fermented liquor, he shall even be one who drops words for this people.
And the lord praised the unrighteous steward, because he acted prudently. For the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of light themselves are in their generation.
The One coming from above is above all. The one being of the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth. The One coming out of Heaven is above all.
For a time will be when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, they will heap up to themselves teachers tickling the ear;
And the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent, the one being called the devil, even Satan; the one leading astray the whole inhabited earth, was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.