For false christs and false prophets will be raised up, and they will show great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

See, I have told you in advance.

Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years, night and day I did not cease, with tears, exhorting each one.

I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I admonish [you].

So then, let him who thinks he stands take heed, lest he should fall!

I marvel that you are turning so quickly from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel,

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach a gospel to you other than what we preached to you, let him be accursed.

For do I just now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.

Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.

You have become estranged from Christ, you who are justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

who, having become callous, gave themselves over to debauchery, for the working of uncleanness with utmost greediness.

if indeed you have heard Him and were instructed by Him, just as the truth is in Jesus:

For this you know, that no fornicator, or unclean person, nor covetous person, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

whom we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

Therefore put to death your members on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

that no one should transgress against and to defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger concerning all, just as we told you before and solemnly testified.

Therefore he who rejects [this] does not reject man, but God, who has given His Holy Spirit to you.

Now we exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the discouraged, be supportive of the weak, be patient toward all.

Speak these things, exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Everyone who abides in Him does not sin; everyone who sins has not seen Him nor has he known Him.

He who practices sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this [reason] the Son of God appeared, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

And when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits a trespass, and I shall bring punishment before him, he shall die, because you did not warn him: he shall even die in his sins, because his righteousness shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

For Your servant keeps to them; in the keeping of them [there is] great reward.

Give an opportunity to a wise man, and he will be wiser: instruct a just man, and he will receive more [instruction].

A threat breaks down the heart of a wise man, but a fool, though scourged, understands not.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was to be blamed.

And the rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.

let him know that he who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

But if you warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, and from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, and you shall deliver your soul.

Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for by doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.