1 Timothy 4:2
Good News Translation
Such teachings are spread by deceitful liars, whose consciences are dead, as if burnt with a hot iron.

New Revised Standard Version
through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

Contemporary English Version
They will also be fooled by the false claims of liars whose consciences have lost all feeling. These liars

New American Bible
through the hypocrisy of liars with branded consciences.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Speaking lies in hypocrisy and having their conscience seared,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Speaking lies in hypocrisy and having their conscience seared,

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1 Kings 13:18 He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee: and an angel spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived him,

1 Kings 22:22 And he said: I will go forth, and be a lying spirit, in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said: Thou shalt deceive him, and shalt prevail: go forth, and do so.

Isaiah 9:15 The aged and honourable, he is the head: and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Jeremiah 5:21 Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes, and see not: and ears, and hear not.

Jeremiah 23:14,32 And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of the wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings, they are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha. . . .

Daniel 8:23-25 And after their reign, when iniquities shall be grown up, there shall arise a king of a shameless face, and understanding dark sentences. . . .

Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Matthew 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if possible) even the elect.

Acts 20:30 And of your own selves shall arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own belly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the innocent.

Ephesians 4:14 That henceforth we be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the wickedness of men, by cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive.

2 Timothy 3:5 Having an appearance indeed of godliness but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.

2 Peter 2:1-3 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction. . . .

Revelation 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working signs: and they go forth unto the kings of the whole earth, to gather them to battle against the great day of the Almighty God.

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Romans 1:28 And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

Ephesians 4:19 Who despairing have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness.

Context
Warnings against False Teachers
1Now the Spirit manifestly saith that in the last times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to spirits of error and doctrines of devils, 2Speaking lies in hypocrisy and having their conscience seared, 3Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and by them that have known the truth.…
Cross References
1 Kings 13:18
He said to him: I also am a prophet like unto thee: and an angel spoke to me, in the word of the Lord, saying: Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread, and drink water. He deceived him,

Jeremiah 23:26
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, and that prophesy the delusions of their own heart?

Ephesians 4:19
Who despairing have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness.

1 Timothy 4:1
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