Romans 16:17
King James Version
6 Jun 2026
“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.”
μανθάνω
To learn, to discover by experience. Manthano. I have learned to be content. Contentment is not automatic. It is learned through the experience of God's faithfulness in every season.
παρακαλέω
I exhort
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παρακαλέω
To comfort, to exhort, to encourage. Parakaleo. The God of all comfort who comforts us in all our troubles. He does not just send comfort. He is the God who comforts personally.
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διδαχή
teaching
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διδαχή
Teaching, doctrine, instruction. Didache. They continued steadfastly in the apostles teaching. The first mark of a healthy church is devotion to sound teaching.
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παρά
contrary to
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παρά
From, beside, by the side of. Apart from Me you can do nothing. Total dependence on Jesus is not weakness. It is the only path to fruitfulness.
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ἐκκλίνω
do turn away
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ἐκκλίνω
to deviate, i.e. (absolutely) to shun (literally or figuratively), or (relatively) to decline (from piety)
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σκάνδαλον
obstacles
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σκάνδαλον
a trap-stick (bent sapling), i.e. snare (figuratively, cause of displeasure or sin)
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ποιέω
causing
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ποιέω
to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)
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σκοπέω
to watch out for
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σκοπέω
to take aim at (spy), i.e. (figuratively) regard
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διχοστασία
divisions
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διχοστασία
disunion, i.e. (figuratively) dissension
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