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Eph. 4:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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 wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. (James 1:6)

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

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Matt. 18:3‑4• ³And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
⁴Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (Matt. 18:3‑4)

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1 Cor. 3:1‑2• ¹And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
²I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. (1 Cor. 3:1‑2)

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1 Cor. 14:20• ²⁰Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be 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 need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
¹³For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
¹⁴But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (Heb. 5:12‑14)

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Acts 20:30‑31• ³⁰Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
³¹Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. (Acts 20:30‑31)

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Rom. 16:17‑18• ¹⁷Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
¹⁸For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. (Rom. 16:17‑18)

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2 Cor. 11:3‑4• ³But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
⁴For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear {/kn{kn 30669}}with him. (2 Cor. 11:3‑4)

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Gal. 1:6‑7• ⁶I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
⁷Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. (Gal. 1:6‑7)

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Gal. 3:1• ¹O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? (Gal. 3:1)

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Col. 2:4‑8• ⁴And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
⁵For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
⁶As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
⁷Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
⁸Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. (Col. 2:4‑8)

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2 Thess. 2:2‑5• ²That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
³Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
⁴Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
⁵Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? (2 Thess. 2:2‑5)

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1 Tim. 3:6• ⁶Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. (1 Tim. 3:6)

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1 Tim. 4:6‑7• ⁶If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
⁷But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. (1 Tim. 4:6‑7)

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2 Tim. 1:15• ¹⁵This thou knowest, that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me; of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes. (2 Tim. 1:15)

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2 Tim. 2:17‑18• ¹⁷And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus;
¹⁸Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some. (2 Tim. 2:17‑18)

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2 Tim. 3:6‑9,13• ⁶For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
⁷Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
⁸Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
⁹But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
¹³But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. (2 Tim. 3:6‑9,13)

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2 Tim. 4:3• ³For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; (2 Tim. 4:3)

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Heb. 13:9• ⁹Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. (Heb. 13:9)

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2 Peter 2:1‑3• ¹But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
²And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
³And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. (2 Peter 2:1‑3)

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1 John 2:19,26• ¹⁹They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
²⁶These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. (1 John 2:19,26)

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

carried.

Matt. 11:7• ⁷And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? (Matt. 11:7)

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1 Cor. 12:2• ²Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. (1 Cor. 12:2)

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James 1:6• ⁶But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. (James 1:6)

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James 3:4• ⁴Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. (James 3:4)

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Matt. 24:11,24• ¹¹And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
²⁴For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. (Matt. 24:11,24)

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2 Cor. 2:17• ¹⁷For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. (2 Cor. 2:17)

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2 Cor. 4:2• ²But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. (2 Cor. 4:2)

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2 Cor. 11:13‑15• ¹³For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
¹⁴And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
¹⁵Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the 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• ⁹Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
¹⁰And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (2 Thess. 2:9‑10)

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2 Peter 2:18• ¹⁸For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. (2 Peter 2:18)

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Rev. 13:11‑14• ¹¹And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
¹²And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
¹³And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
¹⁴And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. (Rev. 13:11‑14)

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Rev. 19:20• ²⁰And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. (Rev. 19:20)

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Psa. 10:9• ⁹He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. (Psa. 10:9)

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Psa. 59:3• ³For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord. (Psa. 59:3)

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Mic. 7:2• ²The good man is perished out of the earth: 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• ²¹But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a 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;

JND Translation Notes

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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,