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John 5:35
John was a burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
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Ezekiel 33:32
Yes, to them you are like a singer of passionate songs who has a beautiful voice and plays skillfully on an instrument. They hear your words, but they don’t obey them.
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Proverbs 12:12
The wicked desire what evil people have caught, but the root of the righteous is productive.
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Hosea 6:4
What am I going to do with you, Ephraim? What am I going to do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist and like the early dew that vanishes.
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2 Timothy 2 18-2 Timothy 2 19
They have departed from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already taken place, and are ruining the faith of some.Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, bearing this inscription: The Lord knows those who are his, and let everyone who calls on the name of the Lord turn away from wickedness.
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2 Peter 2 20
For if, having escaped the world’s impurity through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in these things and defeated, the last state is worse for them than the first.
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Isaiah 58:2
They seek me day after day and delight to know my ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not abandon the justice of their God. They ask me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
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2 Peter 2 22
It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and,“ A washed sow returns to wallowing in the mud.”
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Jude 1:12
These people are dangerous reefs at your love feasts as they eat with you without reverence. They are shepherds who only look after themselves. They are waterless clouds carried along by winds; trees in late autumn— fruitless, twice dead and uprooted.
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Hebrews 10:39
But we are not those who draw back and are destroyed, but those who have faith and are saved.
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Colossians 2:7
being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude.
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1 Timothy 1 19
having faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and have shipwrecked the faith.
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Colossians 1:23
if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.
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Galatians 3:4
Did you experience so much for nothing— if in fact it was for nothing?
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John 15:2
Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes, and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.
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Ephesians 3:17
and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,
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John 2:23-25
While he was in Jerusalem during the Passover Festival, many believed in his name when they saw the signs he was doing.Jesus, however, would not entrust himself to them, since he knew them alland because he did not need anyone to testify about man; for he himself knew what was in man.
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Acts 8:13-23
Even Simon himself believed. And after he was baptized, he followed Philip everywhere and was amazed as he observed the signs and great miracles that were being performed.When the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.After they went down there, they prayed for them so that the Samaritans might receive the Holy Spirit because he had not yet come down on any of them.( They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.When Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,saying,“ Give me this power also so that anyone I lay hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”But Peter told him,“ May your silver be destroyed with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!You have no part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God.Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, your heart’s intent may be forgiven.For I see you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by wickedness.”
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John 15:6
If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.
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1 Corinthians 15 2
and by which you are being saved, if you hold to the message I preached to you— unless you believed in vain.
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Galatians 4:15-20
Where, then, is your blessing? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.So then, have I become your enemy because I told you the truth?They court you eagerly, but not for good. They want to exclude you from me, so that you would pursue them.But it is always good to be pursued in a good manner— and not just when I am with you.My children, I am again suffering labor pains for you until Christ is formed in you.I would like to be with you right now and change my tone of voice, because I don’t know what to do about you.
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Job 19:28
If you say,“ How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem lies with him?”
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Galatians 3:1
You foolish Galatians! Who has cast a spell on you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?
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Psalms 106:12-14
Then they believed his promises and sang his praise.They soon forgot his works and would not wait for his counsel.They were seized with craving in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.
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John 12:42-43
Nevertheless, many did believe in him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, so that they would not be banned from the synagogue.For they loved human praise more than praise from God.
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1 Corinthians 13 2
If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
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Matthew 13:20-21
And the one sown on rocky ground— this is one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.But he has no root and is short-lived. When distress or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.
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Mark 6:20
because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing he was a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard him he would be very perplexed, and yet he liked to listen to him.
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Mark 4:16-17
And others are like seed sown on rocky ground. When they hear the word, immediately they receive it with joy.But they have no root; they are short-lived. When distress or persecution comes because of the word, they immediately fall away.
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1 Thessalonians 3 5
For this reason, when I could no longer stand it, I also sent him to find out about your faith, fearing that the tempter had tempted you and that our labor might be for nothing.
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Luke 22:31-32
“ Simon, Simon, look out. Satan has asked to sift you like wheat.But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
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John 8:30-32
As he was saying these things, many believed in him.Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him,“ If you continue in my word, you really are my disciples.You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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Proverbs 12:3
No one can be made secure by wickedness, but the root of the righteous is immovable.
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James 2:26
For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
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1John 2:19