Offense is a tool of the devil to bring people into captivity. Paul instructed young Timothy: And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare [entrapment] of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will. —2 TIMOTHY 2:24–26, EMPHASIS ADDED Those who are in quarrels or opposition fall into a trap and are held prisoner to do the devil’s will. Even more
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