Acts 20:30

New International Reader's Version

Even men from your own people will rise up and twist the truth. They want to get the believers to follow them.

Cross References

Proverbs 19:1

It is better to be poor and to live without blame than to be foolish and to twist words around.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange sights. Your mind will imagine weird things.

Isaiah 59:3

Your hands and fingers are stained with blood. You are guilty of committing murder. Your mouth has told lies. Your tongue says evil things.

Daniel 11:34

When that happens, they will receive a little help. Many who are not honest will join them.

Matthew 23:15

“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You pretenders! You travel everywhere to win one person to your faith. Then you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.

Acts 11:26

He found him there. Then he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church. They taught large numbers of people. At Antioch the believers were called Christians for the first time.

Acts 21:38

“Aren’t you the Egyptian who turned some of our people against their leaders? Didn’t you lead 4,000 terrorists out into the desert some time ago?”

2 Corinthians 11:13

People like that are false apostles. They are workers who tell lies. They only pretend to be apostles of Christ.

1 Timothy 5:13

Besides, they get into the habit of having nothing to do. They go around from house to house. They waste their time. They also bother other people and say things that make no sense. They shouldn’t say those things.

1 Timothy 6:5

It stirs up trouble all the time among people whose minds are twisted by sin. The truth they once had has been taken away from them. They think they can get rich by being godly.

2 Peter 2:18

They speak empty, bragging words. They make their appeal to the evil desires that come from sin’s power. They tempt new believers who are just escaping from the company of sinful people.

1 John 2:19

These enemies left our community of believers. They didn’t really belong to us. If they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But by leaving they showed that none of them belonged to us.

2 John 1:7

I say this because many people have tried to fool others. These people have gone out into the world. They don’t agree that Jesus Christ came in a human body. People like this try to trick others. These people are like the great enemy of Christ.

Revelation 2:6

But you do have this in your favor. You hate the way the Nicolaitans act. I hate it too.