1 Timothy 5:15

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“For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.”

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BSBPD

“For some have already turned aside to follow Satan.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For some are already turned aside after Satan.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“for already some are turned aside after Satan.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 1 Timothy 5:15 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Matthew 4:10“Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”
  2. Philippians 3:18For as I have often told you before, and now say again even with tears: Many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.
  3. 1 Timothy 1:20Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.
  4. 2 Timothy 1:15You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.
  5. 2 Timothy 2:18who have deviated from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already occurred, and they undermine the faith of some.
  6. 2 Timothy 4:10because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
  7. 2 Peter 2:2Many will follow in their depravity, and because of them the way of truth will be defamed.
  8. 2 Peter 2:20If indeed they have escaped the corruption of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, only to be entangled and overcome by it again, their final condition is worse than it was at first.
  9. 2 Peter 3:16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
  10. 1 John 2:19They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of them belonged to us.
  11. Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  12. Revelation 12:9And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

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