Ephesians 5:6

New English Translation

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

Cross References

2 Kings 18:20

Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me?

Psalm 78:31

when the anger of God flared up against them. He killed some of the strongest of them; he brought the young men of Israel to their knees.

Jeremiah 27:9

So do not listen to your prophets or to those who claim to predict the future by divination, by dreams, by consulting the dead, or by practicing magic. They keep telling you, ‘You do not need to be subject to the king of Babylon.’

Jeremiah 29:31

“Send a message to all the exiles in Babylon. Tell them, ‘The Lord has spoken about Shemaiah the Nehelamite. “Shemaiah has spoken to you as a prophet even though I did not send him. He is making you trust in a lie.

Jeremiah 37:9

Moreover, I, the Lord, warn you not to deceive yourselves into thinking that the Babylonian forces will go away and leave you alone. For they will not go away.

Micah 3:5

This is what the Lord says: “The prophets who mislead my people are as good as dead. If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him.

Matthew 24:24

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

Matthew 24:4

Jesus answered them, “Watch out that no one misleads you.

Mark 13:22

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, the elect.

Mark 13:5

Jesus began to say to them, “Watch out that no one misleads you.

Romans 1:18

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of people who suppress the truth by their unrighteousness,

Colossians 2:18

Let no one who delights in humility and the worship of angels pass judgment on you. That person goes on at great lengths about what he has supposedly seen, but he is puffed up with empty notions by his fleshly mind.

Colossians 2:4

I say this so that no one will deceive you through arguments that sound reasonable.

Colossians 2:8

Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Colossians 3:6

Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

2 Thessalonians 2:3

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not arrive until the rebellion comes and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

Hebrews 3:19

So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.

1 Peter 2:8

and a stumbling-stone and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

1 John 4:1

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.