15 Bible Verses about Strong Delusion
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And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false: So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil. But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:
So I will go after trouble for them, and will send on them what they are fearing: because no one made answer to my voice, or gave ear to my word; but they did what was evil in my eyes, going after that in which I took no pleasure.
If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.
And the Lord said, How? And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.
As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself
With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;
But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,
So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.
For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.
I did not send these prophets, but they went running: I said nothing to them, but they gave out the prophet's word
But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go.
Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.
The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way.
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