Parallel Verses
Amplified
even from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse and distorted things, to draw away the disciples after themselves [as their followers].
New American Standard Bible
and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away
King James Version
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Holman Bible
And men will rise up from your own number with deviant doctrines to lure the disciples into following them.
International Standard Version
Indeed, some of your own men will arise and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them.
A Conservative Version
And from you yourselves men will rise up, speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after them.
American Standard Version
and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
An Understandable Version
[Indeed, even] from among your own selves [i.e., the body of elders there in Ephesus] some men will arise and, by speaking false things, they will lead away the disciples, [influencing them] to follow them.
Anderson New Testament
and men will arise from among yourselves, speaking perverse things, that they may draw off disciples after them.
Bible in Basic English
And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.
Common New Testament
and from among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Daniel Mace New Testament
nay, among your own body some will start up to vent their intricate conceits, and draw a number of followers.
Darby Translation
and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.
Godbey New Testament
and men from you yourselves will rise up, speaking perverse things, in order to lead away disciples after them.
Goodspeed New Testament
and from your own number men will appear and teach perversions of the truth in order to draw the disciples away after them.
John Wesley New Testament
Yea, from among yourselves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Julia Smith Translation
And of yourselves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to tear away disciples after them.
King James 2000
Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And from among you yourselves men will arise, speaking {perversions of the truth} in order to draw away the disciples after them.
Modern King James verseion
Also men shall arise from your own selves, speaking perverse things in order to draw disciples away after them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Moreover, of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things, to draw disciples after them.
Moffatt New Testament
and men of your own number will arise with perversions of the truth to draw the disciples after them.
Montgomery New Testament
and that from among your own number, men will arise, perverting the truth, to draw away the disciples after them.
NET Bible
Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.
New Heart English Bible
Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Noyes New Testament
And from among yourselves will men arise speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Sawyer New Testament
and of yourselves men will arise speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
The Emphasized Bible
and, from among your own selves, will arise men speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Yea, from among yourselves shall men arise, speaking perverting doctrines, to draw away disciples after them.
Twentieth Century New Testament
And from among yourselves, too, men will arise, who will teach perversions of truth, so as to draw away the disciples after them.
Webster
Also from your own selves will men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Weymouth New Testament
and that from among your own selves men will rise up who will seek with their perverse talk to draw away the disciples after them.
Williams New Testament
Even from your own number men will appear who will try, by speaking perversions of truth, to draw away the disciples after them.
World English Bible
Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Worrell New Testament
and from among yourselves will men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Worsley New Testament
And from among yourselves shall men arise, speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them.
Youngs Literal Translation
and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
Themes
Christian ministers » Say good-bye to the congregation
false Doctrines » Teachers of » Speak perverse things
Elder » In the Christian church
Ephesus » Paul visits and preaches in
Miletus » And sends to ephesus for the elders of the congregation, and addresses them at
Missionary journeys » Ac 13-14 » Third - with timothy and others
Paul's » First - with barnabas and john mark ac 13-14 » Third - with timothy and others
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 20:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul's Farewell To The Ephesian Elders
29 I know that after I am gone, [false teachers like] ferocious wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; 30 even from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse and distorted things, to draw away the disciples after themselves [as their followers]. 31 Therefore be continually alert, remembering that for three years, night or day, I did not stop admonishing and advising each one [of you] with tears.
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Cross References
1 Timothy 1:19-20
keeping your faith [leaning completely on God with absolute trust and confidence in His guidance] and having a good conscience; for some [people] have rejected [their moral compass] and have made a shipwreck of their faith.
1 John 2:19
They went out from us [seeming at first to be Christians], but they were not really of us [because they were not truly born again and spiritually transformed]; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out [teaching false doctrine], so that it would be clearly shown that none of them are of us.
Proverbs 19:1
Than a [rich] man who is twisted in his speech and is a [shortsighted] fool.
Proverbs 23:33
Your [drunken] eyes will see strange things
And your mind will utter perverse things [untrue things, twisted things].
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with wickedness [with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing];
Your lips have spoken lies,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Matthew 23:15
Matthew 26:21-25
And as they were eating, He said,
Acts 5:36-37
For some time ago Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody [of importance], and a group of about four hundred men allied themselves with him. But he was killed, and all who followed him were scattered and came to nothing.
Acts 11:26
and when he found him, he brought him back to Antioch. For an entire year they met [with others] in the church and instructed large numbers; and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.
Acts 21:38
Then you are not [as I assumed] the Egyptian who
1 Corinthians 1:12-15
Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I am [a disciple] of Paul,” or “I am [a disciple] of Apollos,” or “I am [a disciple] of Cephas (Peter),” or “I am [a disciple] of Christ.”
Galatians 6:12-13
Those who want to make a good impression in public [before the Jews] try to compel you to be circumcised, just so they will escape being persecuted for [faithfulness to] the cross of Christ.
1 Timothy 5:13
Now at the same time, they also learn to be idle as they go from house to house; and not only idle, but also gossips and
1 Timothy 6:5
and perpetual friction between men who are corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, who think that godliness is a source of profit [a lucrative, money-making business—withdraw from them].
2 Timothy 2:17-18
and their teaching will spread like gangrene. So it is with Hymenaeus and Philetus,
2 Timothy 4:3-4
For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine and accurate instruction [that challenges them with God’s truth]; but wanting to have their ears tickled [with something pleasing], they will accumulate for themselves [many] teachers [one after another, chosen] to satisfy their own desires and to support the errors they hold,
2 Peter 2:1-3
But [in those days] false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will subtly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2 Peter 2:18
For uttering arrogant words of vanity [pompous words disguised to sound scholarly or profound, but meaning nothing and containing no spiritual truth], they beguile and lure using lustful desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error.
2 John 1:7
For many deceivers [heretics, posing as Christians] have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge and confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh (bodily form). This [person, the kind who does this] is the deceiver and the
Jude 1:4-16
For certain people have crept in unnoticed [just as if they were sneaking in by a side door]. They are ungodly persons whose condemnation was predicted long ago, for they distort the grace of our God into decadence and immoral freedom [viewing it as an opportunity to do whatever they want], and deny and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Revelation 2:6