19They 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.
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Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-19)Here is, I. A moral prognostication of the time; the end is coming: Little children, it is the last time , 1 John 2:18. Some may suppose that the apostle here addresses the first rank of Christians again; the juniors are most apt to be seduced, and therefore, “ Little children , you that are young in religion, take heed to yourselves that you be not corrupted.” But it may be, as elsewhere, a unive…
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