To whom have we reported evils? And to whom have we reported a message? [Even to those] that are weaned from the milk, who are drawn from the breast.

and said, "Assuredly I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you shall by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.

And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.

I gave you milk to drink, and not solid food; for you were not yet able [to receive it]. Indeed, neither are you now yet able;

Brothers, do not be children in your understanding; rather, in malice be children, but in understanding be men.

For indeed, although you ought to be teachers by this time, again you have need [for someone] to teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

But solid food is for the mature, for those because of their practice have their senses trained for the distinguishing of both good and evil.

Also from among you yourselves will arise men speaking things having been distorted, [in order] to draw away the disciples after them.

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

Now I urge you, brothers, to look out for those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

For such [people] do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and through smooth speech and flattering, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

But I fear, lest perhaps as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For if he who comes [to you] preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you did not accept, you may well put up with him!

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

which is not another; except there are certain people who trouble you and wish to pervert the gospel of Christ.

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was portrayed publicly among you as crucified?

Now this I say lest anyone may deceive you with persuasive words.

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

Beware lest anyone captures you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

not to be quickly shaken from your mind, nor be disturbed, neither by spirit nor by word nor by letter, as if from us, [as though] the day of Christ has come.

who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or [every] object of worship, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up [with pride] he fall into [the same] condemnation as the devil.

Instructing the brothers in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have carefully followed.

But reject profane and old wives' tales, and exercise yourself unto godliness.

This you know, that all those in Asia have turned away from me, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes.

And their word will spread like gangrene; of whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus,

who have strayed concerning the truth, asserting that the resurrection has already occurred; and they overturn the faith of some.

For of these are those [who] creep into houses and captivate gullible women having been loaded down with sins, who are led by various lusts,

And in just the way Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, thus also these resist the truth: men corrupted in mind, disapproved regarding the faith.

For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, they will heap up for themselves teachers, tickling their ears,

Do not be carried away with various and strange doctrines. For it is good [for] the heart to be established by grace, not by foods, by which those having walked were not profited.

But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master, the [One] having bought them, and bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

And by covetousness they will exploit you with fabricated words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction will not sleep.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but [they went out] in order that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

These things I wrote to you concerning those who deceive you.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Now as these men were going, Jesus began to say to the crowds concerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

You know that when you were Gentiles, how you were led, being carried away to these speechless idols.

But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing, for he that doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.

Consider also the ships: although they are so large and are driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the impulse of the pilot desires.

Then many false prophets will be raised up, and they will deceive many.

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.

For we are not as the rest, corrupting the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.

but we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience before God.

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

whose coming is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,

and in all deception of unrighteousness among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

For when they speak haughty [words] of emptiness, they entice through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, those who are escaping from those who are living in error,

Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke like a dragon.

And he works great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth before men.

Then the Beast was apprehended, and with him the False Prophet who had performed the signs before him, by which he had deceived those who received the mark of the Beast and those who worshipped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.

He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him [after him]: he will bring him down in his snare.

For behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me; neither [is it] my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord.

For the godly has perished from the earth; and there is none upright among men: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict everyone his neighbor.

Therefore you [must] not be persuaded by them; for more than four hundred of them are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves by a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they kill him; and now they are prepared, waiting for the promise from you."