Proverbs 19:27
If you cease to hear instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.
BSB
ASV
Cease, my son, to hear instruction Only to err from the words of knowledge.
KJV
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
literally, Cease, my son, to hear instruction, that thou mayest err from the words of knowledge; advice given ironically to do that to which his weakness leads him, with a clear knowledge of the evil to which he is drifting.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 John 4:1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
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but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on…
Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
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Matthew 7:15Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
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Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
and many false prophets will arise and mislead many.
Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on…
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Mark 4:24He went on to say, “Pay attention to what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and even more will be added to you.
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We must pay closer attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
Pay attention, therefore, to how you listen. Whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken away from him.”