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In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. The Novum Testamentum Graece text is:
This warning is paralleled in Luke 6:44 and appears again at Matthew 12:33; a similar fruit metaphor also appears in Matthew 3. In those other places the verse is an attack on the Pharisees, but here it targets false Christian prophets. Matthew also differs in wording from Luke 6:44.
This verse is parallelled by Luke 6:46, but in Luke the phrasing is directed at the crowd itself, while in Matthew it is against the hypothetical false prophets. [2]This verse states that some of those who claim to be good Christians will be rejected by Jesus if they have not carried out the will of God.
Oct. 16—Next to the Book of Obadiah in the Old Testament, the New Testament's Epistle of Jude is the second-shortest book in the Bible, but it is very weighty with passages that are seen nowhere ...
Fate of The False Prophet, Revelation 16, Beatus de Facundus, 1047. Christian eschatology originated with the public life and preaching of Jesus. [1] Throughout the New Testament and some of the early Christian apocryphal writings, Jesus warns his disciples and apostles multiple times of both false prophets and false Messiahs, and believers are frequently adjured to beware of them and stay ...
[7] Other factors potentially leading to apostasy include: "persecution," "general suffering and hardship," "false teachings and factions," [8] "malaise," [9] "indifference and negligence towards the things of God" (specifically, "the command to love one's neighbors"), [10] and engaging in sinful acts ("vice-doing") or assimilating to the ...
Verses 7:13 and 14 contain the analogy of the broad and narrow roads, a warning of the ease of slipping into damnation. Verse 7:15 continues the warnings about judgment and adds a caution about false prophets [4] [5] [6] by repeating some of the language used by John the Baptist in chapter 3.
This parable compares building one's life on the teachings and example of Jesus to a flood-resistant building founded on solid rock. The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders (also known as the House on the Rock), is a parable of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew as well as in the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke ().