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Matthew 15:6
he does not have to honor his father.’ In this way, you have revoked God’s word because of your tradition.
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James 1:8
An indecisive man is unstable in all his ways.
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Romans 8:1-39
Therefore, no condemnation now exists for those in Christ Jesus,because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,in order that the law’s requirement would be accomplished in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.For those who live according to the flesh think about the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, about the things of the Spirit.For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, since the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, then He who raised Christ from the dead will also bring your mortal bodies to life through His Spirit who lives in you.So then, brothers, we are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh,for if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die. But if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.All those led by God’s Spirit are God’s sons.For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out,“ Abba, Father!”The Spirit Himself testifies together with our spirit that we are God’s children,and if children, also heirs— heirs of God and coheirs with Christ— seeing that we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God’s sons to be revealed.For the creation was subjected to futility— not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it— in the hopethat the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of God’s children.For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now.And not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits— we also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.Now in this hope we were saved, yet hope that is seen is not hope, because who hopes for what he sees?But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with patience.In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings.And He who searches the hearts knows the Spirit’s mind-set, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose.For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.And those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified.What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?He did not even spare His own Son but offered Him up for us all; how will He not also with Him grant us everything?Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect? God is the One who justifies.Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the One who died, but even more, has been raised; He also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us.Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?As it is written: Because of You we are being put to death all day long; we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.No, in all these things we are more than victorious through Him who loved us.For I am persuaded that not even death or life, angels or rulers, things present or things to come, hostile powers,height or depth, or any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!
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2 Peter 2 14
They have eyes full of adultery and are always looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!
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Hebrews 5:11
We have a great deal to say about this, and it’s difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand.
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Jeremiah 23:36
But no longer refer to the burden of the Lord, for each man’s word becomes his burden and you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of Hosts, our God.
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1 Peter 2 8
and A stone to stumble over, and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the message; they were destined for this.
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1 Thessalonians 4 1-1 Thessalonians 4 5
Finally then, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you must walk and please God— as you are doing— do so even more.For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality,so that each of you knows how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don’t know God.
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1 Peter 1 1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ: To the temporary residents dispersed in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, chosen
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Matthew 22:29
Jesus answered them,“ You are deceived, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.
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Philippians 3:19
Their end is destruction; their god is their stomach; their glory is in their shame. They are focused on earthly things,
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1 Corinthians 15 1-1 Corinthians 15 58
Now brothers, I want to clarify for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand on it.You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you— unless you believed for no purpose.For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve.Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time; most of them are still alive, but some have fallen asleep.Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles.Last of all, as to one abnormally born, He also appeared to me.For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.But by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God’s grace that was with me.Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say,“ There is no resurrection of the dead”?But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised;and if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without foundation, and so is your faith.In addition, we are found to be false witnesses about God, because we have testified about God that He raised up Christ— whom He did not raise up if in fact the dead are not raised.For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised.And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is worthless; you are still in your sins.Therefore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man.For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at His coming, those who belong to Christ.Then comes the end, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father, when He abolishes all rule and all authority and power.For He must reign until He puts all His enemies under His feet.The last enemy to be abolished is death.For God has put everything under His feet. But when it says“ everything” is put under Him, it is obvious that He who puts everything under Him is the exception.And when everything is subject to Christ, then the Son Himself will also be subject to the One who subjected everything to Him, so that God may be all in all.Otherwise what will they do who are being baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, then why are people baptized for them?Why are we in danger every hour?I affirm by the pride in you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord: I die every day!If I fought wild animals in Ephesus with only human hope, what good did that do me? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.Do not be deceived:“ Bad company corrupts good morals.”Come to your senses and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.But someone will say,“ How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?”Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.And as for what you sow— you are not sowing the future body, but only a seed, perhaps of wheat or another grain.But God gives it a body as He wants, and to each of the seeds its own body.Not all flesh is the same flesh; there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is different from that of the earthly ones.There is a splendor of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; for one star differs from another star in splendor.So it is with the resurrection of the dead: Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption;sown in dishonor, raised in glory; sown in weakness, raised in power;sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit.However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.The first man was from the earth and made of dust; the second man is from heaven.Like the man made of dust, so are those who are made of dust; like the heavenly man, so are those who are heavenly.And just as we have borne the image of the man made of dust, we will also bear the image of the heavenly man.Brothers, I tell you this: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and corruption cannot inherit incorruption.Listen! I am telling you a mystery: We will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.For this corruptible must be clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal must be clothed with immortality.When this corruptible is clothed with incorruptibility, and this mortal is clothed with immortality, then the saying that is written will take place: Death has been swallowed up in victory.Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord’s work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
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Psalms 56:5
They twist my words all day long; all their thoughts against me are evil.
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2 Timothy 3 5-2 Timothy 3 7
holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
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Jude 1:4
For some men, who were designated for this judgment long ago, have come in by stealth; they are ungodly, turning the grace of our God into promiscuity and denying Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.
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Deuteronomy 16:19
Do not deny justice or show partiality to anyone. Do not accept a bribe, for it blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
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Matthew 15:3
He answered them,“ And why do you break God’s commandment because of your tradition?
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2 Peter 2 1
But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves.
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Genesis 49:4
Turbulent as water, you will no longer excel, because you got into your father’s bed and you defiled it— he got into my bed.
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2 Kings 1 1-2 Kings 1 18
After the death of Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel.Ahaziah had fallen through the latticed window of his upper room in Samaria and was injured. So he sent messengers instructing them:“ Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will recover from this injury.”But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite,“ Go and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them,‘ Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’Therefore, this is what the Lord says:‘ You will not get up from your sickbed— you will certainly die.’” Then Elijah left.The messengers returned to the king, who asked them,“ Why have you come back?”They replied,“ A man came to meet us and said,‘ Go back to the king who sent you and declare to him: This is what the Lord says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you’re sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore, you will not get up from your sickbed— you will certainly die.’”The king asked them,“ What sort of man came up to meet you and spoke those words to you?”They replied,“ A hairy man with a leather belt around his waist.” He said,“ It’s Elijah the Tishbite.”So King Ahaziah sent a captain of 50 with his 50 men to Elijah. When the captain went up to him, he was sitting on top of the hill. He announced,“ Man of God, the king declares,‘ Come down!’”Elijah responded to the captain of the 50,“ If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your 50 men.” Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his 50 men.So the king sent another captain of 50 with his 50 men to Elijah. He took in the situation and announced,“ Man of God, this is what the king says:‘ Come down immediately!’”Elijah responded,“ If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your 50 men.” So a divine fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his 50 men.Then the king sent a third captain of 50 with his 50 men. The third captain of 50 went up and fell on his knees in front of Elijah and begged him,“ Man of God, please let my life and the lives of these 50 servants of yours be precious in your sight.Already fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of 50 with their fifties, but this time let my life be precious in your sight.”The angel of the Lord said to Elijah,“ Go down with him. Don’t be afraid of him.” So he got up and went down with him to the king.Then Elijah said to King Ahaziah,“ This is what the Lord says:‘ Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron— is it because there is no God in Israel for you to inquire of His will?— you will not get up from your sickbed; you will certainly die.’”Ahaziah died according to the word of the Lord that Elijah had spoken. Since he had no son, Joram became king in his place. This happened in the second year of Judah’s King Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat.The rest of the events of Ahaziah’s reign, along with his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.
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Habakkuk 1:4
This is why the law is ineffective and justice never emerges. For the wicked restrict the righteous; therefore, justice comes out perverted.
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Exodus 23:2
“ You must not follow a crowd in wrongdoing. Do not testify in a lawsuit and go along with a crowd to pervert justice.
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1 Kings 10 1
The queen of Sheba heard about Solomon’s fame connected with the name of Yahweh and came to test him with difficult questions.
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Exodus 23:6
“ You must not deny justice to a poor person among you in his lawsuit.