Verses:
1, 2:
Against those who have perverted the good of the Word, and by means of it have destroyed the church, who are meant by the "shepherds."
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3, 4:
They will perish, and the Lord will establish a church from others, who will teach and learn its good.
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5, 6:
The Lord will do this, and then those who are of His church will be saved.
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7, 8:
Then they will acknowledge that the Lord is Jehovah, and that the church is His.
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9:
Against those who pervert the truths of the Word, who are meant by the "prophets."
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10:
From their perversions the church is full of falsities and is perverted,
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11:
and there is no longer truth or good, excepting such as is external.
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12:
Because they do not see truths, they perish on the day of judgment.
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13:
Truths are perverted by false principles, which are of religion.
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14:
But the Word is perverted, this is the worst.
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15:
They will possess nothing but falsity,
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16, 17:
which they also confirm from the Word,
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18:
saying that it is Divine.
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19, 20:
They will perish on the day of judgment.
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21, 22:
They learn from themselves, and not from the Lord; if they learned from the Lord, they would depart from evils;
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23, 24:
thus the Lord would be with them.
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25, 26:
They pervert by means of false interpretation.
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27:
Hence they have no understanding of truth,
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28, 29:
because they have none from the Lord, who also is the Word, in which truth from Him makes itself manifest.
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30, 31:
Those who call themselves enlightened pervert truth still more,
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32:
whereas they are not enlightened.
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33:
The Divine truth shows that they have gone back.
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34:
He who says otherwise will suffer.
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35, 36:
Moreover they will not know what Divine truth is;
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37-40:
and because they call that which is false, Divine truth, the truth of the church will be removed from them; hence their destruction.
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