Better to be poor, walking with integrity, than be a fool whose lips are corrupt.
Acts 20:30 - Tree of Life Version Even from among yourselves will arise men speaking perversions, to draw the disciples away after themselves. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Even from among your own selves men will come to the front who, by saying perverse (distorted and corrupt) things, will endeavor to draw away the disciples after them [to their own party]. American Standard Version (1901) and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. Common English Bible Some of your own people will distort the word in order to lure followers after them. Catholic Public Domain Version And from among yourselves, men will rise up, speaking perverse things in order to entice disciples after them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. |
Better to be poor, walking with integrity, than be a fool whose lips are corrupt.
Your eyes will see strange things. Your heart will utter perverse things.
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
When they stumble, they will receive a little help, but many will join them deceitfully.
“Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel over land and sea to make one convert. And when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourself.
and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met together with Messiah’s community and taught a large number. Now it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called “Christianoi.”
Then you’re not the Egyptian who stirred up a rebellion some time ago—and led four thousand men of the Assassins out into the desert?”
For such men are false emissaries, deceitful workers masquerading as Messiah’s emissaries.
And at the same time, they also learn to be idle, going around from house to house—and not just idle, but also gossipers and busybodies, saying things they should not.
and constant friction between people corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
For by mouthing grandiosities that amount to nothing, they entice in sensual fleshly passions those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
They left us, but they didn’t really belong to us. If they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they left us so it became clear that none of them belongs to us.
For many deceivers have gone out into the world—those who do not acknowledge Yeshua as Messiah coming in human flesh. This one is a deceiver and the anti-messiah.
“Yet you have this going for you, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.