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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 doubteth is like a wave of the sea wind-driven and tossed (James 1:6)

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Isa. 28:9• (Isa. 28:9)

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Matt. 18:3‑4• ³{i}and 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.{/i}
⁴{i}Whoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of the heavens;{/i} (Matt. 18:3‑4)

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1 Cor. 3:1‑2• ¹And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as spiritual, but as fleshy, as babes in Christ.
²With milk I gave you drink, not meat; for ye were not yet able, nor indeed are ye now able, (1 Cor. 3:1‑2)

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1 Cor. 14:20• ²⁰Brethren, be not children in mind, but in malice be infantine, but in mind be of full age. (1 Cor. 14:20)

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Heb. 5:12‑14• ¹²For when on account of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that someone teach you the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and have become such as have need of milk, not of solid food.
¹³For every one that partaketh of milk [is] unskilled in the word of righteousness; for he is an infant.
¹⁴But solid food belongeth to perfect, those that 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 men arise speaking things perverted to draw the disciples after them.
³¹Wherefore watch, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not admonishing each one night and day with tears. (Acts 20:30‑31)

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Rom. 16:17‑18• ¹⁷But I beseech you, brethren, to consider those that make divisions and occasions of stumblingblocks contrary to the doctrine which ye have learnt, and turn away from them.
¹⁸For such as they serve not our Lord [Jesus] Christ, but their own belly, and by kind speaking and fairness of speech deceive the hearts of the harmless. (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, your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity that is toward Christ.
⁴For if indeed he that cometh preacheth another Jesus whom ye preached not, or ye receive a different Spirit whom ye received not, or a different gospel which ye accepted not, ye might well bear with [it]. (2 Cor. 11:3‑4)

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

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Gal. 3:1• ¹O senseless Galatians! who bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was portrayed among you as crucified? (Gal. 3:1)

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Col. 2:4‑8• ⁴And this I say that no one may beguile you by persuasive speech.
⁵For if even in the flesh I am absent, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and seeing your order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
⁶As therefore ye received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, in him walk,
⁷rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, even as ye were taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
⁸See that there shall be no one that leadeth you a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the tradition 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 quickly shaken in mind nor yet troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, as that the day of the Lord is present.
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;
⁴he that opposeth and exalteth himself exceedingly against every one called god, or object of veneration; so that he sitteth down in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
⁵Remember ye not that, being 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 puffed up he fall into the devil's charge . (1 Tim. 3:6)

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1 Tim. 4:6‑7• ⁶Setting these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith and the good teaching which thou hast followed up.
⁷But the profane and old-womanish fables refuse, and exercise thyself unto piety; (1 Tim. 4:6‑7)

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

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2 Tim. 2:17‑18• ¹⁷and their word will eat up as a gangrene: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,
¹⁸[men] who concerning the truth went astray, saying that the resurrection hath already taken place, 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 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.
¹³But wicked men and impostors shall advance for the worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Tim. 3:6‑9,13)

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2 Tim. 4:3• ³For the time will be when they will not endure sound teaching; but according to their own lusts they 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 divers and strange doctrines; for [it is] good that the heart be confirmed with grace; not with meats, in which those that walked were not profited. (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 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;
²and many shall follow their dissolutenesses; because of whom the way of the truth shall be blasphemed.
³And in covetousness with feigned words, they shall make merchandise of you: for whom judgment from of old is not idle, and their perdition slumbereth not. (2 Peter 2:1‑3)

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1 John 2:19,26• ¹⁹From us they went out, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have abode with us, but [they went out] that they might be manifested that none are of us.
²⁶These things I wrote to you concerning those that 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)

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Matt. 11:7• ⁷{i}But 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?{/i} (Matt. 11:7)

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1 Cor. 12:2• ²Ye know that, when ye were Gentiles, [ye were] led away unto the dumb idols as 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 doubteth is like a wave of the sea wind-driven and tossed (James 1:6)

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James 3:4• ⁴Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, where the impulse of the helmsman may purpose. (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 are not as the many, corrupting 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 refused the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor guilefully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men 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 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. 11:13‑15)

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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 for those 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 uttering overswellings of vanity, they allure in lusts of the flesh, by dissolutenesses, those that are just escaping from them that walk in error, (2 Peter 2:18)

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Rev. 13:11‑14• ¹¹And I saw another beast rising up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
¹²And all the authority of the first beast he exerciseth before him, and causeth the earth and those that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
¹³And he doeth great signs, so that even fire he maketh come down out of the heaven unto the earth before men;
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. 13:11‑14)

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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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Psa. 10:9• (Psa. 10:9)

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Psa. 59:3• (Psa. 59:3)

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Mic. 7:2• (Mic. 7:2)

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Acts 23:21• ²¹Do not thou therefore yield to them, for there lie in ambush for him more than forty men of them, who put themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink, till they have slain him; and now they are ready looking for 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;

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,