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NASB | 2 Peter 2:1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Peter 2:1 But [in those days] false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will subtly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves. |
Subject: 1 tim 4:1-2 |
Bible Note: Scribe, perhaps in your encounter with the Mormon lads you were less than what is considered "politically correct" in the polite, compromising society of our time, but what you said to them certainly echoes what Jesus said to the scribes and Pharisees in John 8:24 and in Matthew 23. Jesus wasn't politically correct either, and He spoke candidly and never minced words. I wonder whether Christians err when they speak too softly and too delicately about the realities of life and death, heaven and hell, sin and salvation. Is it I wonder out of timidity and fear of reprisal that so many modern Christians are reluctant to tell it like it is, or is it their apathy that robs their words of fire and conviction? Or are they lame and ineffective because they are simply too lazy and indolent to obey the commands issued in 2 Timothy 2:15 and 1 Peter 3:15? My many years as a Bible school teacher have convinced me that an alarming percentage of confessing Christians are able neither to teach or preach the gospel of Christ nor to defend it. --Hank |