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Romans 16:17

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

I urge you, Brothers, to be on your guard against people who, by disregarding the teaching which you received, cause divisions and create difficulties; dissociate yourselves from them.

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If he refuses to listen to them, speak to the Church; and, if he also refuses to listen to the Church, treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.

Alas for the world because of such snares! There cannot but be snares; yet alas for the man who is answerable for the snare!

Beware of false Teachers--men who come to you in the guise of sheep, but at heart they are ravenous wolves.

Jesus said to his disciples: "It is inevitable that there should be snares; yet alas for him who is answerable for them!

As we had heard that some of our number had upset you by their assertions, and unsettled your minds--without instructions from us--

To begin with, I hear you and, to some extent, I believe it.

While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other men do?

But, on account of the false Brothers who had stolen in, the men who had crept in to spy upon the liberty which we have through union with Christ Jesus, in order to bring us back to slavery--

Brothers, unite in following my example, and fix your eyes on those who are living by the pattern which we have set you.

Take care there is not some one who will carry you away by his 'philosophy'--a hollow sham!--following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with Christ.

We urge you, Brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to avoid any Brother who is living an ill-ordered life, which is not in agreement with the teaching that you received from us.

I beg you, as I did when I was on my way into Macedonia, to remain at Ephesus; that you may instruct certain people there not to teach new and strange doctrines,

and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such men as these.

If a man is causing divisions among you, after warning him once or twice, have nothing more to say to him.

From us, it is true, they went out, but they had never belonged to us; for, if they had belonged to us, they would have remained among us. They left us that it might be made clear that they do not, any of them, belong to us.

These are the people--animal and unspiritual--who cause divisions.




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