An adversary is one who opposes, one who disputes at every turn. Satan is the chief adversary and leader of all adversaries of the Truth.
Dealing with an ungodly underminer who speaks foolishly and always wrongly influences the hearers in the same empty and misguided foolishness and disrespect:
10 Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.
16 These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.
19 These are the people who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. Jude 1:10, 16, 19
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Beware infighting which is endless. Arguing is destructive. There is a time for silencing that which is foolish. This calls for great discernment, and there will always be complainers and slanderers, malicious talkers and adversaries.
Beware not to become like the adversary. Do not become an adversary. We do not exist as opponents, rather as proponents. We do not occupy ourselves with opposing error, rather with declaring the Truth. Overcome evil with GOOD.
Beware lest you are rebellious. Beware lest your talk is meaningless. Beware lest you are deceptive. Beware lest you are disruptive. Beware lest you are teaching things you ought not teach. Beware lest you receive dishonest gain. Beware lest you pay attention to myths and conspiracies.
There is a time for sharp rebuke.
Do not miss the time for rebuke.
Welcome it.
Do not reject rebuke.
Receive it.
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For there are many rebellious people, full of meaningless talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision group. They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain. This saying is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth. To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good. Titus 1:10-11, 13-16
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