• Deny
• Deserting
• Deceiving
• Despise

1 John 2:22 New King James Version (NKJV)

²² Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.

Titus 2:1 New King James Version (NKJV)

Qualities of a Sound Church

2 But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine:

Titus 2:7 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁷ in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showingintegrity, reverence, incorruptibility,^[a]

Footnotes:

1. Titus 2:7 NU omits incorruptibility

1 John 2:19 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

2 Timothy 3:7 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁷ always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 4:1-2 New King James Version (NKJV)

The Great Apostasy

4 Now the Spirit ^[a]expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, ² speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, 

Footnotes:

1. 1 Timothy 4:1 explicitly

1 John 2:26 New King James Version (NKJV)

²⁶ These things I have written to you concerning those who try to ^[a]deceive you. 

Footnotes:

1. 1 John 2:26 lead you astray

2 Thessalonians 2:3 New King James Version (NKJV)

³ Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of ^[a]sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 

Footnotes:

1. 2 Thessalonians 2:3 NU lawlessness

1 John 2:25 New King James Version (NKJV)

²⁵ And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.

Colossians 1:20 New King James Version (NKJV)

²⁰ and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross.