How do ye not understand, that I spake not to you concerning bread, to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Saducees?
2 Peter 3:17 - Wesley's New Testament 1755 Ye, therefore, beloved, knowing these things before, beware, lest ye also being led away by the error of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Let me warn you therefore, beloved, that knowing these things beforehand, you should be on your guard, lest you be carried away by the error of lawless and wicked [persons and] fall from your own [present] firm condition [your own steadfastness of mind]. American Standard Version (1901) Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness. Common English Bible Therefore, dear friends, since you have been warned in advance, be on guard so that you aren’t led off course into the error of sinful people, and lose your own safe position. Catholic Public Domain Version But since you, brothers, know these things beforehand, be cautious, lest by being drawn into the error of the foolish, you may fall away from your own steadfastness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You therefore, brethren, knowing these things before, take heed, lest being led aside by the error of the unwise, you fall from your own steadfastness. |
How do ye not understand, that I spake not to you concerning bread, to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Saducees?
And Jesus said to them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Saducees.
But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
But I have told you these things, that when the time shall come, ye may remember I told you them. I did not tell you these things at the beginning, because I was with you.
And they continued stedfast in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of bread, and the prayers.
For such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches, deceive the hearts of the simple.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
But I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from simplicity toward Christ.
Christ is become of no effect to you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
That we may be no longer children, fluctuating to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the slight of men, by cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive:
For though I am absent from you in the flesh, yet I am present with you in spirit, rejoicing to behold your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
Beware lest any man make a prey of you through philosophy and empty deceit, after the traditions of men, after the rudiments of this world, and not after Christ.
Whom resist, stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
And delivered righteous Lot, vexed with the filthy behaviour of the wicked:
This second epistle, beloved, I now write to you, in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance,
Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works: if not, I come to thee, and will remove thy candlestick out of its place, unless thou repent.