Acts 20:30

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“Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.”

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“Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.”

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Cross references

Other passages that echo Acts 20:30 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Proverbs 19:1Better a poor man who walks with integrity than a fool whose lips are perverse.
  2. Proverbs 23:33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.
  3. Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
  4. Matthew 23:15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
  5. Matthew 26:21And while they were eating, He said to them, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray Me.”
  6. Acts 5:36Some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and about four hundred men joined him. He was killed, all his followers were dispersed, and it all came to nothing.
  7. Acts 11:26and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. So for a full year they met together with the church and taught large numbers of people. The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch.
  8. Acts 21:38“Aren’t you the Egyptian who incited a rebellion some time ago and led four thousand members of the ‘Assassins’ into the wilderness?”
  9. 1 Corinthians 1:12What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”
  10. Galatians 6:12Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.
  11. 1 Timothy 1:19holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.
  12. 1 Timothy 5:13At the same time they will also learn to be idle, going from house to house and being not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, discussing things they should not mention.
  13. 1 Timothy 6:5and constant friction between men of depraved mind who are devoid of the truth. These men regard godliness as a means of gain.
  14. 2 Timothy 2:17and the talk of such men will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
  15. 2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
  16. 2 Peter 2:1Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
  17. 2 Peter 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
  18. 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.
  19. 2 John 1:7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
  20. 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.
  21. Revelation 2:6But you have this to your credit: You hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

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