It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
He said to them, “These are my words that I told y’all while I was still with y’all, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.”
I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do this! I am a fellow slave with you and with your siblings who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, because the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”
After appointing a day for him, they came to his lodging in even larger numbers. He explained to them from morning until evening, testifying about the Empire of God, working to persuade them about Jesus from the law of Moses and the prophets.
We are of God, and whoever knows God listens to us, but anyone who is not from God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
speaking this way and of these things in all his letters. Some things in them are difficult to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort, as they do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.