Titus 1:10 For there are a lot of rebels out there, full of loose, confusing, and deceiving talk. Those who were brought up religious and ought to know better are the w...

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The Message - For there are a lot of rebels out there, full of loose, confusing, and deceiving talk. Those who were brought up religious and ought to know better are the worst. They’ve got to be shut up. They’re disrupting entire families with their teaching, and all for the sake of a fast buck. One of their own prophets said it best: The Cretans are liars from the womb, barking dogs, lazy bellies. He certainly spoke the truth. Get on them right away. Stop that diseased talk of Jewish make-believe and made-up rules so they can recover a robust faith. Everything is clean to the clean-minded; nothing is clean to dirty-minded unbelievers. They leave their dirty fingerprints on every thought and act. They say they know God, but their actions speak louder than their words. They’re real creeps, disobedient good-for-nothings.
新标点和合本 - 因为有许多人不服约束，说虚空话欺哄人；那奉割礼的更是这样。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 因为也有许多人不受约束，说空话欺哄人，尤其是那些奉割礼的人。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 因为也有许多人不受约束，说空话欺哄人，尤其是那些奉割礼的人。
当代译本 - 因为有许多悖逆之人喜欢空谈，善于欺骗，尤其是那些奉行割礼的人。
圣经新译本 - 因为有许多不受约束、好讲空话和欺骗人的，尤其是那些守割礼的人，
中文标准译本 - 因为实在有许多不服从的、讲虚妄话的、欺骗人的，尤其是那些属于割礼派的人；
现代标点和合本 - 因为有许多人不服约束，说虚空话欺哄人，那奉割礼的更是这样。
和合本（拼音版） - 因为有许多人不服约束，说虚空话欺哄人，那奉割礼的更是这样。
New International Version - For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group.
New International Reader's Version - Many people refuse to obey God. All they do is talk about things that mean nothing. They try to fool others. No one does these things more than the circumcision group.
English Standard Version - For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.
New Living Translation - For there are many rebellious people who engage in useless talk and deceive others. This is especially true of those who insist on circumcision for salvation.
Christian Standard Bible - For there are many rebellious people, full of empty talk and deception, especially those from the circumcision party.
New American Standard Bible - For there are many rebellious people, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
New King James Version - For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
Amplified Bible - For there are many rebellious men who are empty talkers [just windbags] and deceivers; especially those of the circumcision [those Jews who insist that Gentile believers must be circumcised and keep the Law in order to be saved].
American Standard Version - For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,
King James Version - For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
New English Translation - For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections,
World English Bible - For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
新標點和合本 - 因為有許多人不服約束，說虛空話欺哄人；那奉割禮的更是這樣。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 因為也有許多人不受約束，說空話欺哄人，尤其是那些奉割禮的人。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 因為也有許多人不受約束，說空話欺哄人，尤其是那些奉割禮的人。
當代譯本 - 因為有許多悖逆之人喜歡空談，善於欺騙，尤其是那些奉行割禮的人。
聖經新譯本 - 因為有許多不受約束、好講空話和欺騙人的，尤其是那些守割禮的人，
呂振中譯本 - 有許多不服約束、好談虛妄事、欺騙人的人，尤其是那些受過割禮的人，
中文標準譯本 - 因為實在有許多不服從的、講虛妄話的、欺騙人的，尤其是那些屬於割禮派的人；
現代標點和合本 - 因為有許多人不服約束，說虛空話欺哄人，那奉割禮的更是這樣。
文理和合譯本 - 蓋多有不順之人、言虛誕、行欺詐、奉割禮者尤甚、
文理委辦譯本 - 蓋有人越準繩、虛誕欺詐、而宗割禮為尤甚、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 蓋有多人不服者、言虛誕、行誘惑、而奉割禮者為尤甚、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 方今不可駕御者、實繁有徒、信口雌黃、自欺欺人尤以割禮中人為甚。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Y es que hay muchos rebeldes, charlatanes y engañadores, especialmente los partidarios de la circuncisión.
현대인의 성경 - 복종하지 않고 터무니없는 말을 하며 남을 속이는 사람들이 많이 있습니다. 특히 할례를 주장하는 사람들 가운데 그런 사람들이 많으므로
Новый Русский Перевод - Есть много людей, особенно среди обрезанных , которые не признают над собой власти, занимаются пустыми разговорами и обманывают других.
Восточный перевод - Есть много людей, особенно среди обрезанных , что непокорны, занимаются пустыми разговорами и обманывают других.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Есть много людей, особенно среди обрезанных , что непокорны, занимаются пустыми разговорами и обманывают других.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Есть много людей, особенно среди обрезанных , что непокорны, занимаются пустыми разговорами и обманывают других.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Car nombreux sont ceux qui refusent de se soumettre à la vérité. Ils profèrent des discours creux et entraînent les gens dans l’erreur. On en trouve surtout parmi les gens issus du judaïsme.
リビングバイブル - こう言うのは、真理に従わない人が大ぜいいるからです。特に、「クリスチャンはみな、割礼を受けるべきだ」と主張する者たちは、その代表的な例だと言えます。これはまた、なんとばかげた議論でしょう。彼らは人の目をくらませて、真理を見いだすのを阻むのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - Εἰσὶν γὰρ πολλοὶ [καὶ] ἀνυπότακτοι, ματαιολόγοι καὶ φρεναπάται, μάλιστα οἱ ἐκ τῆς περιτομῆς,
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - εἰσὶν γὰρ πολλοὶ καὶ ἀνυπότακτοι, ματαιολόγοι, καὶ φρεναπάται, μάλιστα οἱ ἐκ τῆς περιτομῆς,
Nova Versão Internacional - Pois há muitos insubordinados, que não passam de faladores e enganadores, especialmente os do grupo da circuncisão.
Hoffnung für alle - Denn es gibt viele, die sich gegen Gott auflehnen, Schwätzer und Verführer, besonders unter getauften Juden.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Có rất nhiều người, nhất là những người câu nệ lễ cắt bì, chỉ biết chống đối, huênh hoang, lừa dối người ta.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เพราะมีหลายคนที่มักขัดขืนไม่เชื่อฟังพวกเขา เป็นคนดีแต่พูดและหลอกลวงโดยเฉพาะคนเหล่านั้นจากกลุ่มเข้าสุหนัต
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เพราะมีหลายคนที่ดื้อกระด้าง เอาแต่พูดและหลอกลวง โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งพวกที่เข้าสุหนัตแล้ว

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Revelation 2:14 - “But why do you indulge that Balaam crowd? Don’t you remember that Balaam was an enemy agent, seducing Balak and sabotaging Israel’s holy pilgrimage by throwing unholy parties? And why do you put up with the Nicolaitans, who do the same thing?
Revelation 2:6 - “You do have this to your credit: You hate the Nicolaitan business. I hate it, too.
2 Corinthians 11:12 - And I’m not changing my position on this. I’d die before taking your money. I’m giving nobody grounds for lumping me in with those money-grubbing “preachers,” vaunting themselves as something special. They’re a sorry bunch—pseudo-apostles, lying preachers, crooked workers—posing as Christ’s agents but sham to the core. And no wonder! Satan does it all the time, dressing up as a beautiful angel of light. So it shouldn’t surprise us when his servants masquerade as servants of God. But they’re not getting by with anything. They’ll pay for it in the end.
Ephesians 4:14 - No prolonged infancies among us, please. We’ll not tolerate babes in the woods, small children who are easy prey for predators. God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love—like Christ in everything. We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do. He keeps us in step with each other. His very breath and blood flow through us, nourishing us so that we will grow up healthy in God, robust in love.
Galatians 4:17 - Those heretical teachers go to great lengths to flatter you, but their motives are rotten. They want to shut you out of the free world of God’s grace so that you will always depend on them for approval and direction, making them feel important. * * *
Galatians 4:18 - It is a good thing to be passionate in doing good, but not just when I am in your presence. Can’t you continue the same concern for both my person and my message when I am away from you that you had when I was with you? Do you know how I feel right now, and will feel until Christ’s life becomes visible in your lives? Like a mother in the pain of childbirth. Oh, I keep wishing that I was with you. Then I wouldn’t be reduced to this blunt, letter-writing language out of sheer frustration.
Galatians 4:21 - Tell me now, you who have become so enamored with the law: Have you paid close attention to that law? Abraham, remember, had two sons: one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. The son of the slave woman was born by human plotting; the son of the free woman was born by God’s promise. This illustrates the very thing we are dealing with now. The two births represent two ways of being in relationship with God. One is from Mount Sinai in Arabia. It corresponds with what is now going on in Jerusalem—a slave life, producing slaves as offspring. This is the way of Hagar. In contrast to that, there is an invisible Jerusalem, a free Jerusalem, and she is our mother—this is the way of Sarah. Remember what Isaiah wrote: Rejoice, barren woman who bears no children, shout and cry out, woman who has no birth pangs, Because the children of the barren woman now surpass the children of the chosen woman. Isn’t it clear, friends, that you, like Isaac, are children of promise? In the days of Hagar and Sarah, the child who came from faithless plotting (Ishmael) harassed the child who came—empowered by the Spirit—from the faithful promise (Isaac). Isn’t it clear that the harassment you are now experiencing from the Jerusalem heretics follows that old pattern? There is a Scripture that tells us what to do: “Expel the slave mother with her son, for the slave son will not inherit with the free son.” Isn’t that conclusive? We are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
Acts 15:1 - It wasn’t long before some Jews showed up from Judea insisting that everyone be circumcised: “If you’re not circumcised in the Mosaic fashion, you can’t be saved.” Paul and Barnabas were up on their feet at once in fierce protest. The church decided to resolve the matter by sending Paul, Barnabas, and a few others to put it before the apostles and leaders in Jerusalem.
Galatians 3:1 - You crazy Galatians! Did someone put a spell on you? Have you taken leave of your senses? Something crazy has happened, for it’s obvious that you no longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives. His sacrifice on the cross was certainly set before you clearly enough.
Romans 16:17 - One final word of counsel, friends. Keep a sharp eye out for those who take bits and pieces of the teaching that you learned and then use them to make trouble. Give these people a wide berth. They have no intention of living for our Master Christ. They’re only in this for what they can get out of it, and aren’t above using pious sweet talk to dupe unsuspecting innocents.
2 Peter 2:1 - But there were also lying prophets among the people then, just as there will be lying religious teachers among you. They’ll smuggle in destructive divisions, pitting you against each other—biting the hand of the One who gave them a chance to have their lives back! They’ve put themselves on a fast downhill slide to destruction, but not before they recruit a crowd of mixed-up followers who can’t tell right from wrong.
2 Peter 2:2 - They give the way of truth a bad name. They’re only out for themselves. They’ll say anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you. They won’t, of course, get by with it. They’ll come to a bad end, for God has never just stood by and let that kind of thing go on.
Galatians 5:1 - Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.
Galatians 5:2 - I am emphatic about this. The moment any one of you submits to circumcision or any other rule-keeping system, at that same moment Christ’s hard-won gift of freedom is squandered. I repeat my warning: The person who accepts the ways of circumcision trades all the advantages of the free life in Christ for the obligations of the slave life of the law.
Galatians 5:4 - I suspect you would never intend this, but this is what happens. When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace. Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit. For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.
James 1:26 - Anyone who sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.
Galatians 1:6 - I can’t believe how you waver—how easily you have turned traitor to him who called you by the grace of Christ by embracing an alternative message! It is not a minor variation, you know; it is completely other, an alien message, a no-message, a lie about God. Those who are provoking this agitation among you are turning the Message of Christ on its head. Let me be blunt: If one of us—even if an angel from heaven!—were to preach something other than what we preached originally, let him be cursed. I said it once; I’ll say it again: If anyone, regardless of reputation or credentials, preaches something other than what you received originally, let him be cursed.
1 John 2:18 - Children, time is just about up. You heard that Antichrist is coming. Well, they’re all over the place, antichrists everywhere you look. That’s how we know that we’re close to the end.
Philippians 3:2 - Steer clear of the barking dogs, those religious busybodies, all bark and no bite. All they’re interested in is appearances—knife-happy circumcisers, I call them. The real believers are the ones the Spirit of God leads to work away at this ministry, filling the air with Christ’s praise as we do it. We couldn’t carry this off by our own efforts, and we know it—even though we can list what many might think are impressive credentials. You know my pedigree: a legitimate birth, circumcised on the eighth day; an Israelite from the elite tribe of Benjamin; a strict and devout adherent to God’s law; a fiery defender of the purity of my religion, even to the point of persecuting the church; a meticulous observer of everything set down in God’s law Book.
Acts 20:29 - “I know that as soon as I’m gone, vicious wolves are going to show up and rip into this flock, men from your very own ranks twisting words so as to seduce disciples into following them instead of Jesus. So stay awake and keep up your guard. Remember those three years I kept at it with you, never letting up, pouring my heart out with you, one after another.
Acts 15:24 - We heard that some men from our church went to you and said things that confused and upset you. Mind you, they had no authority from us; we didn’t send them. We have agreed unanimously to pick representatives and send them to you with our good friends Barnabas and Paul. We picked men we knew you could trust, Judas and Silas—they’ve looked death in the face time and again for the sake of our Master Jesus Christ. We’ve sent them to confirm in a face-to-face meeting with you what we’ve written.
1 John 4:1 - My dear friends, don’t believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world.

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The Message - For there are a lot of rebels out there, full of loose, confusing, and deceiving talk. Those who were brought up religious and ought to know better are the worst. They’ve got to be shut up. They’re disrupting entire families with their teaching, and all for the sake of a fast buck. One of their own prophets said it best: The Cretans are liars from the womb, barking dogs, lazy bellies. He certainly spoke the truth. Get on them right away. Stop that diseased talk of Jewish make-believe and made-up rules so they can recover a robust faith. Everything is clean to the clean-minded; nothing is clean to dirty-minded unbelievers. They leave their dirty fingerprints on every thought and act. They say they know God, but their actions speak louder than their words. They’re real creeps, disobedient good-for-nothings.
新标点和合本 - 因为有许多人不服约束，说虚空话欺哄人；那奉割礼的更是这样。
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 因为也有许多人不受约束，说空话欺哄人，尤其是那些奉割礼的人。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 因为也有许多人不受约束，说空话欺哄人，尤其是那些奉割礼的人。
当代译本 - 因为有许多悖逆之人喜欢空谈，善于欺骗，尤其是那些奉行割礼的人。
圣经新译本 - 因为有许多不受约束、好讲空话和欺骗人的，尤其是那些守割礼的人，
中文标准译本 - 因为实在有许多不服从的、讲虚妄话的、欺骗人的，尤其是那些属于割礼派的人；
现代标点和合本 - 因为有许多人不服约束，说虚空话欺哄人，那奉割礼的更是这样。
和合本（拼音版） - 因为有许多人不服约束，说虚空话欺哄人，那奉割礼的更是这样。
New International Version - For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group.
New International Reader's Version - Many people refuse to obey God. All they do is talk about things that mean nothing. They try to fool others. No one does these things more than the circumcision group.
English Standard Version - For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.
New Living Translation - For there are many rebellious people who engage in useless talk and deceive others. This is especially true of those who insist on circumcision for salvation.
Christian Standard Bible - For there are many rebellious people, full of empty talk and deception, especially those from the circumcision party.
New American Standard Bible - For there are many rebellious people, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
New King James Version - For there are many insubordinate, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
Amplified Bible - For there are many rebellious men who are empty talkers [just windbags] and deceivers; especially those of the circumcision [those Jews who insist that Gentile believers must be circumcised and keep the Law in order to be saved].
American Standard Version - For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,
King James Version - For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
New English Translation - For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers, and deceivers, especially those with Jewish connections,
World English Bible - For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
新標點和合本 - 因為有許多人不服約束，說虛空話欺哄人；那奉割禮的更是這樣。
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 因為也有許多人不受約束，說空話欺哄人，尤其是那些奉割禮的人。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 因為也有許多人不受約束，說空話欺哄人，尤其是那些奉割禮的人。
當代譯本 - 因為有許多悖逆之人喜歡空談，善於欺騙，尤其是那些奉行割禮的人。
聖經新譯本 - 因為有許多不受約束、好講空話和欺騙人的，尤其是那些守割禮的人，
呂振中譯本 - 有許多不服約束、好談虛妄事、欺騙人的人，尤其是那些受過割禮的人，
中文標準譯本 - 因為實在有許多不服從的、講虛妄話的、欺騙人的，尤其是那些屬於割禮派的人；
現代標點和合本 - 因為有許多人不服約束，說虛空話欺哄人，那奉割禮的更是這樣。
文理和合譯本 - 蓋多有不順之人、言虛誕、行欺詐、奉割禮者尤甚、
文理委辦譯本 - 蓋有人越準繩、虛誕欺詐、而宗割禮為尤甚、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 蓋有多人不服者、言虛誕、行誘惑、而奉割禮者為尤甚、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 方今不可駕御者、實繁有徒、信口雌黃、自欺欺人尤以割禮中人為甚。
Nueva Versión Internacional - Y es que hay muchos rebeldes, charlatanes y engañadores, especialmente los partidarios de la circuncisión.
현대인의 성경 - 복종하지 않고 터무니없는 말을 하며 남을 속이는 사람들이 많이 있습니다. 특히 할례를 주장하는 사람들 가운데 그런 사람들이 많으므로
Новый Русский Перевод - Есть много людей, особенно среди обрезанных , которые не признают над собой власти, занимаются пустыми разговорами и обманывают других.
Восточный перевод - Есть много людей, особенно среди обрезанных , что непокорны, занимаются пустыми разговорами и обманывают других.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Есть много людей, особенно среди обрезанных , что непокорны, занимаются пустыми разговорами и обманывают других.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Есть много людей, особенно среди обрезанных , что непокорны, занимаются пустыми разговорами и обманывают других.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Car nombreux sont ceux qui refusent de se soumettre à la vérité. Ils profèrent des discours creux et entraînent les gens dans l’erreur. On en trouve surtout parmi les gens issus du judaïsme.
リビングバイブル - こう言うのは、真理に従わない人が大ぜいいるからです。特に、「クリスチャンはみな、割礼を受けるべきだ」と主張する者たちは、その代表的な例だと言えます。これはまた、なんとばかげた議論でしょう。彼らは人の目をくらませて、真理を見いだすのを阻むのです。
Nestle Aland 28 - Εἰσὶν γὰρ πολλοὶ [καὶ] ἀνυπότακτοι, ματαιολόγοι καὶ φρεναπάται, μάλιστα οἱ ἐκ τῆς περιτομῆς,
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - εἰσὶν γὰρ πολλοὶ καὶ ἀνυπότακτοι, ματαιολόγοι, καὶ φρεναπάται, μάλιστα οἱ ἐκ τῆς περιτομῆς,
Nova Versão Internacional - Pois há muitos insubordinados, que não passam de faladores e enganadores, especialmente os do grupo da circuncisão.
Hoffnung für alle - Denn es gibt viele, die sich gegen Gott auflehnen, Schwätzer und Verführer, besonders unter getauften Juden.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Có rất nhiều người, nhất là những người câu nệ lễ cắt bì, chỉ biết chống đối, huênh hoang, lừa dối người ta.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เพราะมีหลายคนที่มักขัดขืนไม่เชื่อฟังพวกเขา เป็นคนดีแต่พูดและหลอกลวงโดยเฉพาะคนเหล่านั้นจากกลุ่มเข้าสุหนัต
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เพราะมีหลายคนที่ดื้อกระด้าง เอาแต่พูดและหลอกลวง โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งพวกที่เข้าสุหนัตแล้ว

Revelation 2:14 - “But why do you indulge that Balaam crowd? Don’t you remember that Balaam was an enemy agent, seducing Balak and sabotaging Israel’s holy pilgrimage by throwing unholy parties? And why do you put up with the Nicolaitans, who do the same thing?
Revelation 2:6 - “You do have this to your credit: You hate the Nicolaitan business. I hate it, too.
2 Corinthians 11:12 - And I’m not changing my position on this. I’d die before taking your money. I’m giving nobody grounds for lumping me in with those money-grubbing “preachers,” vaunting themselves as something special. They’re a sorry bunch—pseudo-apostles, lying preachers, crooked workers—posing as Christ’s agents but sham to the core. And no wonder! Satan does it all the time, dressing up as a beautiful angel of light. So it shouldn’t surprise us when his servants masquerade as servants of God. But they’re not getting by with anything. They’ll pay for it in the end.
Ephesians 4:14 - No prolonged infancies among us, please. We’ll not tolerate babes in the woods, small children who are easy prey for predators. God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love—like Christ in everything. We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do. He keeps us in step with each other. His very breath and blood flow through us, nourishing us so that we will grow up healthy in God, robust in love.
Galatians 4:17 - Those heretical teachers go to great lengths to flatter you, but their motives are rotten. They want to shut you out of the free world of God’s grace so that you will always depend on them for approval and direction, making them feel important. * * *
Galatians 4:18 - It is a good thing to be passionate in doing good, but not just when I am in your presence. Can’t you continue the same concern for both my person and my message when I am away from you that you had when I was with you? Do you know how I feel right now, and will feel until Christ’s life becomes visible in your lives? Like a mother in the pain of childbirth. Oh, I keep wishing that I was with you. Then I wouldn’t be reduced to this blunt, letter-writing language out of sheer frustration.
Galatians 4:21 - Tell me now, you who have become so enamored with the law: Have you paid close attention to that law? Abraham, remember, had two sons: one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. The son of the slave woman was born by human plotting; the son of the free woman was born by God’s promise. This illustrates the very thing we are dealing with now. The two births represent two ways of being in relationship with God. One is from Mount Sinai in Arabia. It corresponds with what is now going on in Jerusalem—a slave life, producing slaves as offspring. This is the way of Hagar. In contrast to that, there is an invisible Jerusalem, a free Jerusalem, and she is our mother—this is the way of Sarah. Remember what Isaiah wrote: Rejoice, barren woman who bears no children, shout and cry out, woman who has no birth pangs, Because the children of the barren woman now surpass the children of the chosen woman. Isn’t it clear, friends, that you, like Isaac, are children of promise? In the days of Hagar and Sarah, the child who came from faithless plotting (Ishmael) harassed the child who came—empowered by the Spirit—from the faithful promise (Isaac). Isn’t it clear that the harassment you are now experiencing from the Jerusalem heretics follows that old pattern? There is a Scripture that tells us what to do: “Expel the slave mother with her son, for the slave son will not inherit with the free son.” Isn’t that conclusive? We are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
Acts 15:1 - It wasn’t long before some Jews showed up from Judea insisting that everyone be circumcised: “If you’re not circumcised in the Mosaic fashion, you can’t be saved.” Paul and Barnabas were up on their feet at once in fierce protest. The church decided to resolve the matter by sending Paul, Barnabas, and a few others to put it before the apostles and leaders in Jerusalem.
Galatians 3:1 - You crazy Galatians! Did someone put a spell on you? Have you taken leave of your senses? Something crazy has happened, for it’s obvious that you no longer have the crucified Jesus in clear focus in your lives. His sacrifice on the cross was certainly set before you clearly enough.
Romans 16:17 - One final word of counsel, friends. Keep a sharp eye out for those who take bits and pieces of the teaching that you learned and then use them to make trouble. Give these people a wide berth. They have no intention of living for our Master Christ. They’re only in this for what they can get out of it, and aren’t above using pious sweet talk to dupe unsuspecting innocents.
2 Peter 2:1 - But there were also lying prophets among the people then, just as there will be lying religious teachers among you. They’ll smuggle in destructive divisions, pitting you against each other—biting the hand of the One who gave them a chance to have their lives back! They’ve put themselves on a fast downhill slide to destruction, but not before they recruit a crowd of mixed-up followers who can’t tell right from wrong.
2 Peter 2:2 - They give the way of truth a bad name. They’re only out for themselves. They’ll say anything, anything, that sounds good to exploit you. They won’t, of course, get by with it. They’ll come to a bad end, for God has never just stood by and let that kind of thing go on.
Galatians 5:1 - Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.
Galatians 5:2 - I am emphatic about this. The moment any one of you submits to circumcision or any other rule-keeping system, at that same moment Christ’s hard-won gift of freedom is squandered. I repeat my warning: The person who accepts the ways of circumcision trades all the advantages of the free life in Christ for the obligations of the slave life of the law.
Galatians 5:4 - I suspect you would never intend this, but this is what happens. When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace. Meanwhile we expectantly wait for a satisfying relationship with the Spirit. For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.
James 1:26 - Anyone who sets himself up as “religious” by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.
Galatians 1:6 - I can’t believe how you waver—how easily you have turned traitor to him who called you by the grace of Christ by embracing an alternative message! It is not a minor variation, you know; it is completely other, an alien message, a no-message, a lie about God. Those who are provoking this agitation among you are turning the Message of Christ on its head. Let me be blunt: If one of us—even if an angel from heaven!—were to preach something other than what we preached originally, let him be cursed. I said it once; I’ll say it again: If anyone, regardless of reputation or credentials, preaches something other than what you received originally, let him be cursed.
1 John 2:18 - Children, time is just about up. You heard that Antichrist is coming. Well, they’re all over the place, antichrists everywhere you look. That’s how we know that we’re close to the end.
Philippians 3:2 - Steer clear of the barking dogs, those religious busybodies, all bark and no bite. All they’re interested in is appearances—knife-happy circumcisers, I call them. The real believers are the ones the Spirit of God leads to work away at this ministry, filling the air with Christ’s praise as we do it. We couldn’t carry this off by our own efforts, and we know it—even though we can list what many might think are impressive credentials. You know my pedigree: a legitimate birth, circumcised on the eighth day; an Israelite from the elite tribe of Benjamin; a strict and devout adherent to God’s law; a fiery defender of the purity of my religion, even to the point of persecuting the church; a meticulous observer of everything set down in God’s law Book.
Acts 20:29 - “I know that as soon as I’m gone, vicious wolves are going to show up and rip into this flock, men from your very own ranks twisting words so as to seduce disciples into following them instead of Jesus. So stay awake and keep up your guard. Remember those three years I kept at it with you, never letting up, pouring my heart out with you, one after another.
Acts 15:24 - We heard that some men from our church went to you and said things that confused and upset you. Mind you, they had no authority from us; we didn’t send them. We have agreed unanimously to pick representatives and send them to you with our good friends Barnabas and Paul. We picked men we knew you could trust, Judas and Silas—they’ve looked death in the face time and again for the sake of our Master Jesus Christ. We’ve sent them to confirm in a face-to-face meeting with you what we’ve written.
1 John 4:1 - My dear friends, don’t believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world.