2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved.
Proverbs 1:7
Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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 receive my words, and store up my commands within you,
Proverbs 4:5-6
Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.
Matthew 13:11
He replied, "You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.
John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
John 3:19-21
Now this is the basis for judging: 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
(I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)
John 8:45-47
But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me.
Romans 2:7-8
eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,
Romans 10:1
Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.
Romans 16:18
For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.
1 Corinthians 16:22
Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. Our Lord, come!
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are a sweet 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 others, hucksters who peddle the word of God for profit, but we are speaking in Christ before God as persons of sincerity, as persons sent from God.
2 Corinthians 4:2-3
But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone'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 surprising his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will correspond to their actions.
Ephesians 4:14
So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.
1 Timothy 2:4
since he wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called "Today," that none of you may become hardened by sin's deception.
James 1:16-18
Do not be led astray, my dear brothers and sisters.
2 Peter 2:12
But these men, like irrational animals -- creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed -- do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed,
2 Peter 2:18
For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.