1 Timothy 4:1 Cross References - WPNT

¹ Now the Spirit says explicitly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceiving spirits and to things taught by demons

⁵ Because many will come in my name saying, ‘I am the Christ’, and they will deceive many. ⁶ You will be concerned when you hear of wars and rumors of wars; see to it that you not get worked up; for all of it has to happen, but the end is not yet. ⁷ For nation will be raised up against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in various places; ⁸ but all these things are only a beginning of birth pains. ⁹ “Then they will hand you over to oppression and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. ¹⁰ And then many will be offended, and they will betray one another and will hate one another. ¹¹ And many false prophets will be raised up and they will deceive many. ¹² And because of the increase of the lawlessness the love of the majority will grow cold.

¹³ However, when He, the Spirit of the Truth, has come, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but He will speak whatever He hears. He will also communicate to you the things that are coming.

² As they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart to me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them!”

¹⁸ Then certain philosophers, both Epicureans and Stoics, encountered him. Some said, “What might this idea-scavenger want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities”—because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection.

²⁵ So being in disagreement among themselves they started to leave, after Paul had said this one word: “The Holy Spirit spoke correctly to our fathers through Isaiah the prophet,

⁵ For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on the earth (since there are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’), ⁶ yet for us there is one God, the Father, out of whom are all things and we into Him, and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through Him.

²⁰ Rather, that the things pagans sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to become participants with the demons.

¹¹ However, the one and the same Spirit produces all of these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

³ But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve with his cunning, so your minds may be corrupted from the integrity that is in Christ.

¹³ Such men are really false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into ‘apostles’ of Christ. ¹⁴ And no wonder, because Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. ¹⁵ So it is no great thing if his servants also masquerade as ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.

¹⁸ Nor let anyone disqualify you, taking pleasure in a subservience and devotion to the angels, ‘taking possession’ of things that he has not seen, being puffed up by his carnal mind to no useful purpose,

³ Don’t let anyone deceive you by any means; because that day cannot come unless the rebellion comes first and the man of sin is revealed, the son of ruin, ⁴ who opposes and exalts himself over everything that is called a god or an object of worship, to the point of taking his seat as God in God’s sanctuary, proclaiming himself to be God. ⁵ (Don’t you remember that I used to tell you these things while still with you?) ⁶ So now you know what is restraining, to the end that he may be revealed at his own time. ⁷ For the mystery of the lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He removes Himself. ⁸ And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and abolish by the splendor of His coming; ⁹ that one’s coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, ¹⁰ and with all wicked deception among those who are wasting themselves, because they did not receive the love of the truth so that they might be saved. ¹¹ Yes, because of this God will send them an active delusion so that they will believe the lie ¹² and so that all may be condemned who have not believed the truth but have taken pleasure in wickedness.

¹ Now understand this: In the last days there will be grievous times; ² because people will be self-lovers, money lovers, boasters, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without family affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, ⁴ betrayers, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; ⁵ wearing a form of godliness while having denied its power! You must avoid such people; ⁶ because they are the sort that press into households and ‘capture’ gullible women loaded down with sins, who are led along by various lusts, ⁷ always learning yet never being able to come to a real knowledge of truth. ⁸ Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth—men of depraved mind, disqualified as regards the faith— ⁹ but they will not advance any further because, as in the case of the former, their folly will become evident to all.

¹³ while malignant men and imposters will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

⁴ —yes, they will turn their ears away from the Truth and be turned aside to fables.

²⁰ who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake,

¹ However, there were also false prophets among the people, just as, indeed, there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Owner who bought them (bringing on themselves swift destruction).

³ Knowing this first: in the last days mockers will come, living according to their own lusts

¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared, by which we know that it is the last hour.

⁶ We are of God: he who knows God listens to us; he who is not of God doesn’t listen to us—by this we know the Spirit of the Truth and the spirit of the deception.

⁴ Because certain men, who were marked out for this condemnation long ago, have sneaked in; they are godless, perverting the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying the only Sovereign God, even our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹⁸ how they told you that in the last time there will be scoffers who live according to their own godless desires.

⁷ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who overcomes I will grant to eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of my God.’

¹¹ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. The one who overcomes will absolutely not be harmed by the second death.’

¹⁷ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To the one who overcomes I will grant to eat from the hidden manna. And I will give him a white pebble, and on the pebble a new name written, which no one knows except the receiver.’

²⁹ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.’

⁶ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.’

¹³ ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.’

²² ‘He who has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.’”

² So he opened the shaft of the Abyss and smoke went up out of the shaft, like the smoke of a burning furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the shaft. ³ And ‘locusts’ exited from the smoke into the earth. And to them was given a capability just like the scorpions of the earth have capability. ⁴ And they were told not to harm the grass of the earth, nor any green plant, nor any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. ⁵ And it was designated to them [locusts], not to kill them [men] but, to torment them five months. And their torment is like the torment of a scorpion whenever it strikes a person. ⁶ And in those days the people will seek death but not find it; they will want to die but death will run away from them. ⁷ Now the appearance of the ‘locusts’ was like horses prepared for battle, and something like a golden crown was on their heads, and their faces were like human faces. ⁸ They had hair like a woman’s and their teeth were like a lion’s. ⁹ They had breastplates like breastplates of iron and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. ¹⁰ And, they have tails like scorpions and stingers precisely in those tails! They have the capability to hurt the populace five months, ¹¹ having as king over them the angel of the Abyss—his name in Hebrew is Abbadon, while in Greek he has the name Apollyon.

²⁰ Yet the rest of the people, those who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as to stop worshipping the demons, even the idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

¹⁴ And he deceives my own people, those dwelling on the earth, by the signs that it was given to him to perform before the Beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the Beast who had the sword wound and lived.

¹⁴ For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

² And he cried out with a strong voice saying: “It fell, it fell, Babylon the great! and has become a dwelling place of demons, even a prison of every unclean spirit, also a prison of every unclean and detestable bird.

²³ the light of a lamp will never shine in you again; the voice of bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again; because your merchants were the magnates of the earth, because by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.’

²⁰ So the Beast was captured, and with him the False prophet, the one who performed signs in his presence (by which he had deceived those who had received the mark of the Beast and those who worshipped his image). The two were thrown alive into the Lake of Fire that burns with brimstone.

² And he seized the dragon, the ancient serpent, who is a slanderer, even Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years; ³ he threw him into the Abyss and locked and sealed it over him so that he should not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years were finished. And after these years he must be loosed for a short time.

⁸ and he will go forth to deceive the nations that are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war, whose number is like the sand of the sea.

¹⁰ And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the Lake of Fire and brimstone, where the Beast and the False prophet also are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.