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Romans 16:17

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I warn you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and who trip you up by teaching you things that are the opposite of what you’ve learned. Stay away from them,

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These are the people who create divisions among you. They live only by instinct and they’re not led by the Holy Spirit.

Brothers and sisters, we command you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to keep away from every believer who’s lazy and disruptive and who doesn’t follow the teaching you received from us.

They’ll pretend that they’re serving God, but they won’t believe that God has any power. Don’t have anything to do with people like that.

Make sure that no one makes you their prisoner through false and deceptive reasoning, through ideas that depend on human teachings and the basic spiritual powers of this world rather than on Christ.

If someone is causing divisions, warn them once, and then warn them again if you have to, but after that, don’t have anything to do with them.

That question came up because some false believers had slipped in among us to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus. They wanted to make us slaves again.

As I told you when I went into Macedonia, I want you to stay there in Ephesus. I need you to command certain people not to teach things that aren’t true and not to spend their time on made-up stories

Brothers and sisters, join together in following my example. You have us as a model, so pay close attention to those who live the way we do.

Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Things like that must come. Woe to the person who causes them!

You’re still following your own wrong desires. If you’re jealous and you’re arguing, aren’t those desires in charge? Aren’t you acting like ordinary human beings?

We’ve heard that some of our people came and bothered and upset you by things they said. But they came without any authority from us.

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

If they still refuse to listen, then tell it to the community of believers. And if they refuse to listen even to the community, then treat them the way you would treat an unbeliever or a traitor.

First, here’s what people are telling me. When you get together as a church, you split up into opposing groups. And in some ways, I believe that,

Jesus said to his disciples, “Things that make people sin are sure to come, but woe to anyone who causes those things to come!

“Watch out for false prophets. They come to you disguised as sheep, but on the inside they’re hungry wolves.




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