Perhaps, you have taken counsel, so that you would prepare yourself for battle. In whom do you trust, so that you would dare to rebel?
Ephesians 5:6 - Catholic Public Domain Version Let no one seduce you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God was sent upon the sons of unbelief. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Let no one delude and deceive you with empty excuses and groundless arguments [for these sins], for through these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of rebellion and disobedience. American Standard Version (1901) Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience. Common English Bible Nobody should deceive you with stupid ideas. God’s anger comes down on those who are disobedient because of this kind of thing. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the children of unbelief. English Standard Version 2016 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. |
Perhaps, you have taken counsel, so that you would prepare yourself for battle. In whom do you trust, so that you would dare to rebel?
Therefore, you should not choose to listen to your own prophets, and diviners, and dreamers, and soothsayers, and sorcerers, who say to you: 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon.'
"Send to all those of the transmigration, saying: Thus says the Lord to Shemaiah of Nehelam: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, though I did not send him, and because he has caused you to trust in a lie:
But even if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and if there were left behind from among them only a few wounded men, they would rise up, each one from his tent, and they would burn this city with fire."
Thus says the Lord about the prophets who seduce my people: They bite with their teeth and preach peace, and if anyone does not give something to their mouth, they sanctify a battle against him.
For there will arise false Christs and false prophets. And they will produce great signs and wonders, so much so as to lead into error even the elect (if this could be).
For false Christs and false prophets will rise up, and they will present signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if it were possible, even the elect.
And Jesus, answering, began to say to them: "See to it that no one leads you astray.
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven over every impiety and injustice among those men who fend off the truth of God with injustice.
Let no one seduce you, preferring base things and a religion of Angels, walking according to what he has not seen, being vainly inflated by the sensations of his flesh,
See to it that no one deceives you through philosophy and empty falsehoods, as found in the traditions of men, in accord with the influences of the world, and not in accord with Christ.
Let no one deceive you in any way. For this cannot be, unless the apostasy will have arrived first, and the man of sin will have been revealed, the son of perdition,
Do not be led away by changing or strange doctrines. And it is best for the heart to be sustained by grace, not by foods. For the latter have not been as useful to those who walked by them.
and a stone of offense, and a rock of scandal, to those who are offended by the Word; neither do they believe, though they also have been built upon him.
Most beloved, do not be willing to believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see if they are of God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.