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2 Timothy 3:13 (WEB)
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Fathers and councils · 6

Augustine of Hippo, Confessions VIII.5Book VIII
“By which links, as it were, joined together (whence I term it a “chain”), did a hard bondage hold me enthralled.” — editor's note: There would appear to be a law at work in the moral and spiritual worlds similar to that of gravitation in the natural, which “acts inversely as the square of…
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 55
““But evil men and seducers shall make progress for the worse, themselves erring, and other men into error driving.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 13.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 69
“…they merited not to be healed, in their very naughtiness in a manner they advanced; as it is said, “But evil men and wicked doers advance for the worse:” and iniquity is laid upon their own iniquity.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 13.
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Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Festal Letters.11Festal Letters
“‘But evil-doers and sorcerers will wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.’” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 13.
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Theodoret of Cyrus, Letters Letter 109
““Yea and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.”” — editor's note: 2 Tim. iii. 12, 13
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Cyprian of Carthage, On the Vanity of Idols
“…the flights of birds, rule the lots, give efficiency to oracles, are always mixing up falsehood with truth, for they are both deceived and they deceive; they disturb their life, they disquiet their slumbers; their spirits creeping also into their bodies, secretly terrify their minds, distort their limbs, break…” — editor's note: [2 Tim. iii. 13. See vol. iii. 68.]
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