2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish 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 son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
Proverbs 4:5-6
Get wisdom. Get understanding. Do not forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
Matthew 13:11
And he answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
John 3:19-21
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
John 5:34
But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things 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 -- eternal life.
Romans 6:17
But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
Romans 10:1
Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for them, that they may be saved.
Romans 16:18
For those who are such do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.
1 Corinthians 16:22
If any man does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. Come, Lord.
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved, and in those who perish;
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not, like so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:2-3
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:15
It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
Ephesians 4:14
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
1 Thessalonians 2:16
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
1 Timothy 2:4
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
Hebrews 3:13
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called "today;" lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
James 1:16-18
Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
2 Peter 2:12
But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who barely escape from those who live in error;