19For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
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They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-22)In this passage the apostle sharply rebukes them for much greater disorders than the former, in their partaking of the Lord’s supper, which was commonly done in the first ages, as the ancients tell us, with a love-feast annexed, which gave occasion to the scandalous disorders which the apostle here reprehends, concerning which observe, I. The manner in which he introduces his charge: “ Now in this…
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