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2 Timothy 3 6
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,
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1 Timothy 6 5
and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.
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Titus 1:7
For an overseer, as God’s administrator, must be blameless, not arrogant, not hot-tempered, not addicted to wine, not a bully, not greedy for money,
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Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.
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Titus 3:10
Reject a divisive person after a first and second warning,
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2 Corinthians 11 10
As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia.
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Psalms 63:11
But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will boast, for the mouths of liars will be shut.
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Micah 3:11
Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,“ Isn’t the Lord among us? No disaster will overtake us.”
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2 Peter 2 1-2 Peter 2 3
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.Many will follow their unrestrained ways, and the way of truth will be blasphemed because of them.They will exploit you in their greed with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.
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Ezekiel 13:19
You profane Me in front of My people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread; you kill those who should not die and spare those who should not live, when you lie to My people, who listen to lies.
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Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore, I will give their wives to other men, their fields to new occupants, for from the least to the greatest, everyone is making profit dishonestly. From prophet to priest, everyone deals falsely.
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Ezekiel 16:63
so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
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Isaiah 56:10-11
Israel’s watchmen are blind, all of them, they know nothing; all of them are mute dogs, they cannot bark; they dream, lie down, and love to sleep.These dogs have fierce appetites; they never have enough. And they are shepherds who have no discernment; all of them turn to their own way, every last one for his own gain.
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Psalms 107:42
The upright see it and rejoice, and all injustice shuts its mouth.
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Micah 3:5
This is what the Lord says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who proclaim peace when they have food to sink their teeth into but declare war against the one who puts nothing in their mouths.
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Titus 1:9
holding to the faithful message as taught, so that he will be able both to encourage with sound teaching and to refute those who contradict it.
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Luke 20:40
And they no longer dared to ask Him anything.
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Matthew 23:13
“ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You lock up the kingdom of heaven from people. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.
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John 10:12
The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.