2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Proverbs 2:1-6
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
Proverbs 4:5-6
Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
Matthew 13:11
And he answered them, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.
John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
John 3:19-21
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
John 5:34
Not that the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
John 8:45-47
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
Romans 2:7-8
to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed,
Romans 10:1
Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.
Romans 16:18
For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
1 Corinthians 16:22
If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:2-3
But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God's word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone's conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:15
So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.
Ephesians 4:14
so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved--so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!
1 Timothy 2:4
who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
James 1:16-18
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
2 Peter 2:12
But these, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters of which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction,
2 Peter 2:18
For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.