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Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, thatg in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spiritsh, and doctrines of devils;

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Dan. 11:35• (Dan. 11:35)

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Matt. 24:5‑12• ⁵For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they shall mislead many.
⁶And ye shall be about to hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled; for they must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
⁷For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in places.
⁸But all these [are the] beginning of travails.
⁹Then shall they give you up to tribulation and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated by all the nations for my name's sake.
¹⁰And then shall many be stumbled, and give up one another, and hate one another:
¹¹and many false prophets shall arise, and shall mislead many.
¹²And because lawlessness shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall grow cool. (Matt. 24:5‑12)

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2 Peter 2:1• ¹But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also false teachers among you, such as shall bring in by-the-bye sects of perdition, denying even the Sovereign Master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift perdition; (2 Peter 2:1)

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Rev. 16:14• ¹⁴For they are spirits of demons working signs, who go forth unto the kings of the whole habitable {i}world{/i} to gather them together unto the war of [that] great day of God the Almighty. (Rev. 16:14)

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1-5: He foretells that in the latter times there shall be a departure from the faith.

6-16: And to the end that Timothy might not fail in doing his duty, he furnishes him with divers precepts, belonging thereto.

the Spirit.

John 16:13• ¹³Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, shall have come, he will guide you in all the truth; for he will not speak from himself, but whatever he shall hear he will speak; and he will announce to you the things to come. (John 16:13)

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Acts 13:2• ²And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. (Acts 13:2)

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Acts 28:25• ²⁵And being disagreed one with another they left, Paul having said one word, Well spoke the Holy Spirit through Isaiah unto our fathers, (Acts 28:25)

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1 Cor. 12:11• ¹¹But all these things operateth the one and the same Spirit, dividing in particular to each as he pleaseth. (1 Cor. 12:11)

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1 John 2:18• ¹⁸Little children, it is [the] last hour, and even as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now many antichrists have come, whence we know that it is [the] last hour. (1 John 2:18)

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Rev. 2:7,11,17,29• ⁷He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh I will give him to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of [my] God.
¹¹He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. He that overcometh shall in no wise be hurt of the second death.
¹⁷He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, I will give him of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth save he that receiveth {i}it{/i}.
²⁹He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. (Rev. 2:7,11,17,29)

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Rev. 3:6,13,22• ⁶He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.
¹³He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.
²²He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. (Rev. 3:6,13,22)

expressly.

Ezek. 1:3• (Ezek. 1:3)

the latter.

Num. 24:14• (Num. 24:14)

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Deut. 4:30• (Deut. 4:30)

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Deut. 32:29• (Deut. 32:29)

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Isa. 2:2• (Isa. 2:2)

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Jer. 48:47• (Jer. 48:47)

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Jer. 49:39• (Jer. 49:39)

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Ezek. 38:16• (Ezek. 38:16)

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Dan. 10:14• (Dan. 10:14)

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Hos. 3:5• (Hos. 3:5)

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Mic. 4:1• (Mic. 4:1)

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2 Tim. 3:1‑9• ¹But this know, that in [the] last days grievous times shall be there.
²For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, uncontrolled, fierce, haters of good,
⁴traitors, headstrong, puffed up, pleasure-lovers rather than God-lovers,
⁵having a form of piety, but having denied the power thereof; and from these turn away.
⁶For of these are they that enter into houses and lead captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
⁷always learning and never able to come unto knowledge of truth.
⁸And in the manner that Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.
⁹But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be very manifest to all, as theirs also became. (2 Tim. 3:1‑9)

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1 Peter 1:20• ²⁰foreknown indeed before [the] world's foundation, but manifested at [the] last of the times for your sake, (1 Peter 1:20)

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2 Peter 3:3• ³knowing this first, that in the last of the days mockers shall come with mockery walking according to their own lusts, (2 Peter 3:3)

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Jude 4,18• ⁴For certain men have crept in unawares. They, who before of old were ordained to this sentence, ungodly men turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
¹⁸that they said to you, In [the] end of the time shall be mockers walking after their own lusts of ungodliness. (Jude 4,18)

depart.

Dan. 11:35• (Dan. 11:35)

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Matt. 24:5‑12• ⁵For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they shall mislead many.
⁶And ye shall be about to hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled; for they must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
⁷For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in places.
⁸But all these [are the] beginning of travails.
⁹Then shall they give you up to tribulation and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated by all the nations for my name's sake.
¹⁰And then shall many be stumbled, and give up one another, and hate one another:
¹¹and many false prophets shall arise, and shall mislead many.
¹²And because lawlessness shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall grow cool. (Matt. 24:5‑12)

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2 Thess. 2:3• ³Let none deceive you in any way; because [it will not be] except the falling away shall have come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; (2 Thess. 2:3)

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2 Tim. 3:1‑5• ¹But this know, that in [the] last days grievous times shall be there.
²For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, uncontrolled, fierce, haters of good,
⁴traitors, headstrong, puffed up, pleasure-lovers rather than God-lovers,
⁵having a form of piety, but having denied the power thereof; and from these turn away. (2 Tim. 3:1‑5)

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2 Tim. 4:4• ⁴and from the truth they will turn away their ear, and will be turned aside unto fables. (2 Tim. 4:4)

seducing.

Gen. 3:3‑5,13• (Gen. 3:3‑5,13)

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1 Kings 22:22‑23• (1 Kings 22:22‑23)

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2 Chron. 18:19‑22• (2 Chron. 18:19‑22)

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2 Cor. 11:3,13‑15• ³But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity that is toward Christ.
¹³For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ:
¹⁴and no wonder, for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light:
¹⁵[it is] no great thing then if his servants also transform themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works. (2 Cor. 11:3,13‑15)

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2 Thess. 2:9‑12• ⁹whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
¹⁰and in all deceit of unrighteousness for those that perish, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.
¹¹And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error that they should believe falsehood,
¹²that all might be judged who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thess. 2:9‑12)

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2 Tim. 3:13• ¹³But wicked men and impostors shall advance for the worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Tim. 3:13)

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2 Peter 2:1• ¹But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also false teachers among you, such as shall bring in by-the-bye sects of perdition, denying even the Sovereign Master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift perdition; (2 Peter 2:1)

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Rev. 9:2‑11• ²And he opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke arose out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace: and the sun was darkened and the air by the smoke of the pit.
³And out of the smoke came forth locusts unto the earth, and there was given them power as the scorpions of the earth have power.
⁴And it was said to them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree, but the men which have not the seal of God on their foreheads.
⁵And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment {i}was{/i} as the torment of a scorpion when it striketh a man.
⁶And in those days shall men seek death and shall in no wise find it, and shall desire to die, and death fleeth from them.
⁷And the likenesses of the locusts {i}were{/i} like horses prepared for war, and upon their heads as crowns like gold, and their faces as the faces of men.
⁸And they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as of lions.
⁹And they had breastplates as iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings {i}was{/i} as a sound of chariots of many horses running unto war.
¹⁰And they have tails like scorpions, and stings; and in their tails was their power to hurt men five months.
¹¹They have a king over them, the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew {i}is{/i} Abaddon; and in the Greek he hath {i}the{/i} name Apollyon. (Rev. 9:2‑11)

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Rev. 13:14• ¹⁴and he deceiveth those that dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to do before the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, who hath the wound of the sword and lived. (Rev. 13:14)

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Rev. 16:14• ¹⁴For they are spirits of demons working signs, who go forth unto the kings of the whole habitable {i}world{/i} to gather them together unto the war of [that] great day of God the Almighty. (Rev. 16:14)

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Rev. 18:2,23• ²And he cried with a strong voice, saying, Fallen [fallen] is Babylon the great, and is become a habitation of demons, and a haunt of every unclean spirit, and a haunt of every unclean and hated bird.
²³and no light of lamp shall shine any more in thee; and no voice of bridegroom and of bride shall be heard any more in thee; for thy merchants were the great ones of the earth; for by thy sorcery were all the nations deceived. (Rev. 18:2,23)

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Rev. 19:20• ²⁰And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs before him, with which he deceived those that had received the mark of the beast and those that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone. (Rev. 19:20)

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Rev. 20:2‑3,8,10• ²And he laid hold on the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is {i}the{/i} Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,
³and cast him into the abyss, and shut and sealed {i}it{/i} over him, that he might deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished: after these must he be loosed a little space.
⁸and shall go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together unto the war: the number of whom {i}is{/i} as the sand of the sea.
¹⁰And the devil that deceived them was cast also into the lake of fire and brimstone, where also the beast and the false prophet {i}are{/i}; and they shall be tormented day and night unto the ages of the ages. (Rev. 20:2‑3,8,10)

and doctrines.

Dan. 11:35‑38• (Dan. 11:35‑38)

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1 Cor. 8:5‑6• ⁵For even if there are [so-]called gods whether in heaven, or on earth, as there are gods many and lords many;
⁶yet to us [there is] one God the Father, of whom [are] all things, and we unto him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom [are] all things, and we by him. (1 Cor. 8:5‑6)

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1 Cor. 10:20• ²⁰but that what they sacrifice, they sacrificed to demons, and not to God; and I wish you not to be in fellowship with demons. (1 Cor. 10:20)

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Col. 2:18• ¹⁸Let no one defraud you of your prize, doing his will in humility and worship of the angels, intruding into things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh, (Col. 2:18)

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Acts 17:18• ¹⁸And certain also of the Epicureans and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this babbler say? and others, He seemeth to be an announcer of strange divinities, because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. (Acts 17:18)

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Rev. 9:20• ²⁰And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood which can neither see nor hear nor walk; (Rev. 9:20)

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Rev. 9• (Rev. 9)

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• According to Christianity, the eternal God had not only created the world but had revealed Himself in Christ. These apostates, bringing in doctrines of demons, would seek to deny that it was this one and only God of nature who had manifested Himself in grace. (“1 Timothy 4” by J.N. Darby)

• While the Assembly of God is still on earth, there will arise those who once made a profession of Christianity but who give up the great cardinal truths of the Christian faith concerning the Person of Christ. (“Warnings Against Religious Flesh and Instruction in Piety: 1 Timothy 4” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But the Spirit speaks expressly, that in latter times some shall apostatise from the faith, giving their mind to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons

W. Kelly Translation

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But the Spirit saith expressly that in latter times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,