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That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carriedm about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

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James 1:6• ⁶but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about; (James 1:6)

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Isa. 28:9• ⁹Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the report? Them that are weaned from the milk, withdrawn from the breasts? (Isa. 28:9)

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Matt. 18:3‑4• ³and said, Verily I say to you, Unless ye are converted and become as little children, ye will not at all enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
⁴Whoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, *he* is the greatest in the kingdom of the heavens; (Matt. 18:3‑4)

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1 Cor. 3:1‑2• ¹And *I*, brethren, have not been able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly; as to babes in Christ.
²I have given you milk to drink, not meat, for ye have not yet been able, nor indeed are ye yet able; (1 Cor. 3:1‑2)

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1 Cor. 14:20• ²⁰Brethren, be not children in your minds, but in malice be babes; but in your minds be grown men. (1 Cor. 14:20)

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Heb. 5:12‑14• ¹²For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.
¹³For every one that partakes of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe;
¹⁴but solid food belongs to full-grown men, who, on account of habit, have their senses exercised for distinguishing both good and evil. (Heb. 5:12‑14)

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Acts 20:30‑31• ³⁰and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.
³¹Wherefore watch, remembering that for three years, night and day, I ceased not admonishing each one of you with tears. (Acts 20:30‑31)

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Rom. 16:17‑18• ¹⁷But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those who create divisions and occasions of falling, contrary to the doctrine which *ye* have learnt, and turn away from them.
¹⁸For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting. (Rom. 16:17‑18)

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2 Cor. 11:3‑4• ³But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, so your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ.
⁴For if indeed he that comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or ye get a different Spirit, which ye have not got, or a different glad tidings, which ye have not received, ye might well bear with it. (2 Cor. 11:3‑4)

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Gal. 1:6‑7• ⁶I wonder that ye thus quickly change, from him that called you in Christ's grace, to a different gospel,
⁷which is not another one; but there are some that trouble you, and desire to pervert the glad tidings of the Christ. (Gal. 1:6‑7)

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Gal. 3:1• ¹O senseless Galatians, who has bewitched you; to whom, as before your very eyes, Jesus Christ has been portrayed, crucified among you? (Gal. 3:1)

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Col. 2:4‑8• ⁴And I say this to the end that no one may delude you by persuasive speech.
⁵For if indeed in the flesh I am absent, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
⁶As therefore ye have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in him,
⁷rooted and built up in him, and assured in the faith, even as ye have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
⁸See that there be no one who shall lead *you* away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ. (Col. 2:4‑8)

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2 Thess. 2:2‑5• ²that ye be not soon shaken in mind, nor troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as if it were by us, as that the day of the Lord is present.
³Let not any one deceive you in any manner, because it will not be unless the apostasy have first come, and the man of sin have been revealed, the son of perdition;
⁴who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
⁵Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, I said these things to you? (2 Thess. 2:2‑5)

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1 Tim. 3:6• ⁶not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into the fault of the devil. (1 Tim. 3:6)

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1 Tim. 4:6‑7• ⁶Laying these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which thou hast fully followed up.
⁷But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety; (1 Tim. 4:6‑7)

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2 Tim. 1:15• ¹⁵Thou knowest this, that all who are in Asia, of whom is Phygellus and Hermogenes, have turned away from me. (2 Tim. 1:15)

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2 Tim. 2:17‑18• ¹⁷and their word will spread as a gangrene; of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;
¹⁸men who as to the truth have gone astray, saying that the resurrection has taken place already; and overthrow the faith of some. (2 Tim. 2:17‑18)

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2 Tim. 3:6‑9,13• ⁶For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,
⁷always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
⁸Now in the same manner in which Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, thus these also withstand the truth; men corrupted in mind, found worthless as regards the faith.
⁹But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be completely manifest to all, as that of those also became.
¹³But wicked men and juggling impostors shall advance in evil, leading and being led astray. (2 Tim. 3:6‑9,13)

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2 Tim. 4:3• ³For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear; (2 Tim. 4:3)

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Heb. 13:9• ⁹Be not carried away with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the heart be confirmed with grace, not meats; those who have walked in which have not been profited by them. (Heb. 13:9)

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2 Peter 2:1‑3• ¹But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;
²and many shall follow their dissolute ways, through whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.
³And through covetousness, with well-turned words, will they make merchandise of you: for whom judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction slumbers not. (2 Peter 2:1‑3)

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1 John 2:19,26• ¹⁹They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.
²⁶These things have I written to you concerning those who lead you astray: (1 John 2:19,26)

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1 John 4:1• ¹Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1)

carried.

Matt. 11:7• ⁷But as they went away, Jesus began to say to the crowds concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? a reed moved about by the wind? (Matt. 11:7)

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1 Cor. 12:2• ²Ye know that when ye were of the nations ye were led away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led. (1 Cor. 12:2)

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James 1:6• ⁶but let him ask in faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed about; (James 1:6)

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James 3:4• ⁴Behold also the ships, which are so great, and driven by violent winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, wherever the pleasure of the helmsman will. (James 3:4)

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Matt. 24:11,24• ¹¹and many false prophets shall arise and shall mislead many;
²⁴For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall give great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect. (Matt. 24:11,24)

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2 Cor. 2:17• ¹⁷For we do not, as the many, make a trade of the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, before God, we speak in Christ. (2 Cor. 2:17)

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2 Cor. 4:2• ²But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God. (2 Cor. 4:2)

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2 Cor. 11:13‑15• ¹³For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
¹⁴And it is not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.
¹⁵It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also transform themselves as ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works. (2 Cor. 11:13‑15)

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2 Thess. 2:9‑10• ⁹whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
¹⁰and in all deceit of unrighteousness to them that perish, because they have not received the love of the truth that they might be saved. (2 Thess. 2:9‑10)

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2 Peter 2:18• ¹⁸For while speaking great highflown words of vanity, they allure with the lusts of the flesh, by dissoluteness, those who have just fled those who walk in error, (2 Peter 2:18)

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Rev. 13:11‑14• ¹¹And I saw another beast rising out of the earth; and it had two horns like to a lamb, and spake as a dragon;
¹²and it exercises all the authority of the first beast before it, and causes the earth and those that dwell in it to do homage to the first beast, whose wound of death was healed.
¹³And it works great signs, that it should cause even fire to come down from heaven to the earth before men.
¹⁴And it deceives those that dwell upon the earth by reason of the signs which it was given to it to work before the beast, saying to those that dwell upon the earth to make an image to the beast, which has the wound of the sword, and lived. (Rev. 13:11‑14)

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Rev. 19:20• ²⁰And the beast was taken, and the false prophet that was with him, who wrought the signs before him by which he deceived them that received the mark of the beast, and those that worship his image. Alive were both cast into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone; (Rev. 19:20)

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Psa. 10:9• ⁹He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he lieth in wait to catch the afflicted: he doth catch the afflicted, drawing him into his net. (Psa. 10:9)

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Psa. 59:3• ³For behold, they lie in wait for my soul; strong ones are gathered against me: not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah. (Psa. 59:3)

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Mic. 7:2• ²The godly man hath perished out of the land, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt every man his brother with a net. (Mic. 7:2)

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Acts 23:21• ²¹Do not thou then be persuaded by them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor drink till they kill him; and now they are ready waiting the promise from thee. (Acts 23:21)

• {The perfect man} is in contrast with this condition of weakness and exposure to all the craft of men and their changing, scheming tactics of error. (“Remarks on Ephesians 4:12-16” by W. Kelly)

• Do we desire to learn and do the will of God? Is that our great object? Or is it merely, Where can I get enough comfort or blessing to keep my head above water? Of this, too, I am fully assured that if you are found doing the will of God, you will get the most and best blessing; but it is not the true Christian motive, and it is an unsafe one. (“Remarks on Ephesians 4:12-16” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of *that* teaching which is ini the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;

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The form of the Greek phrase makes it somewhat difficult to translate. I do not think that the phrase "in the sleight of," etc., is in connection with "tossed and carried about," but, in sense, with "that teaching." The cheating, as of dice-players, and still more methodic craft, characterized the teaching. "In the sleight of men" marks the power and character of the teaching. What I have given is literal, and is sufficiently clear. "that" is emphatic.

W. Kelly Translation

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that we may no longer be babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of doctrine in the sleight of men, in craftiness for the scheming of error,