2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with every unrighteous deception against those who are perishing, in place of which they did not accept the love of the truth, so that they would be saved.
Proverbs 1:7
Fear of Yahweh [is the] beginning of knowledge; wisdom and instruction, fools despise.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
Proverbs 2:1-6
My child, if you will receive my sayings, and hide my commands with you,
Proverbs 4:5-6
Get wisdom and insight; do not forget and do not turn from the sayings of my mouth.
Proverbs 8:17
I love {those who love me}, and those who seek me diligently shall find me.
Matthew 13:11
And he answered [and] said to them, "To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to those [people] it has not been granted.
John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him.
John 3:19-21
And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.
John 5:34
(And I do not receive testimony from people, but I say these [things] in order that you may be saved.)
John 8:45-47
But because I am telling the truth, you do not believe me.
Romans 2:7-8
to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory and honor and immortality, eternal life,
Romans 6:17
But thanks [be] to God that you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted,
Romans 10:1
Brothers, the desire of my heart and my prayer to God on behalf of them [is] for [their] salvation.
Romans 16:18
For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach, and by smooth speech and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.
1 Corinthians 16:22
If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. O 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 the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives--but as from God--we speak before God in Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:2-3
but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such people [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:15
Therefore [it is] not a great thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds.
Ephesians 4:14
so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles in order that they may be saved, so that [they] always fill up their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the end.
1 Timothy 2:4
who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
Hebrews 3:13
But encourage one another {day by day}, as long as it is called "today," so that {none of you become hardened} by the deception of sin.
James 1:16-18
Do not be deceived, my dear brothers.
2 Peter 2:12
But these persons, like irrational animals born [only with] natural [instincts] for capture and killing, blaspheming {about things} they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed,
2 Peter 2:18
{For by speaking high-sounding but empty words}, they entice with desires of the flesh [and] with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error,