17 Bible Verses about impulsiveness
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cruel, enemies to virtue, traitors, insolent, conceited, and more devoted to pleasure than to piety:
that we should be no longer children, fluctuating, and carried about with every empty doctrine, by men vers'd in sleight and the crafty arts of deceit:
a little leaven affects the whole mass.
Of this number are they, who insinuate themselves into families, to make a prey of the weaker sex, who are inveigled by their vitious suggestions, abetted by their own subtle passions,
since this is incontestible, it behoves you to be easy, and free from any rash conduct:
then Peter said to him, Lord, do you apply this similitude to us, or to all in general?
PETER an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the foreigners dispers'd thro' Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, whom God the father has chosen in pursuance of his decree,
by the stony ground is understood such persons as receive indeed the doctrines they hear, with joy: but for want of resolution, believe only occasionally, and desert when the trial comes.
then coming to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, Lord, what! would you wash my feet?
Peter said to him, Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake.
Peter answered, Lord, said he, if it be you, bid me come upon the water to you.
so that this is a matter not dependent on him that wills or runs, but on God, who shews mercy.
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if justification be by the law, Christ died to no purpose.
Simon Peter who followed him, being come, went into the cave, and saw the linen clothes lying there;
Now whilst he was in Jerusalem at the feast of the passover, many believed in him when they saw the miracles which he did.
Jesus said to him the third time, Simon son of Jonas, do you love me? Peter was grieved at his asking him the third time, "do you love me?" and he said to him, Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you. Jesus said to him, feed my sheep.
