Do you want to be Deceived? No one does! But look at the verses below and see how it is possible for a person to be deceived..
.Consider each verse and note how and what is used to deceive people…
How does this verse say you can be deceived?
1.-“But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore do not be partners with them. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness,righteousness and truth).” – {Eph 5:2-9}.
How does this verse say you can be deceived?
2. – “For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream.”-{Jer 29:8}.
How does this verse say you can be deceived?
3. – “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.-{1 Cor 6:9-10}.
How does this verse say you can be deceived?
4.- “Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.” – {1 Cor 15 :33 }.
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5.”Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.”-{Gal 6:7}.
How does this verse say you can be deceived?
6. – “See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according. to Christ.”-{Col 2:8}.
How does this verse say you can be deceived?
7.- Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,”-{2 Thess 2:3}.
8. – How does this verse say you can be deceived?
“Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil. ..By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.“-{1 John 3:7-8,10}.
How does this verse say you can be deceived?
9.- “Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures.”-{James 1:13-21}.
Write down how each verse teaches a person can be deceived, and combine them to be alert for your own life and to help others!
