2 Thessalonians 2:10
He will use every kind of wicked deceit on those who will perish. They will perish because they did not welcome and love the truth so as to be saved.
Proverbs 1:7
Respect for Jehovah (YHWH) is the beginning of knowledge (truth) (understanding) (wisdom). Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the preaching of the stake is foolishness to those who perish. It is the power of God to us who are saved.
Proverbs 2:1-6
My son, take my words to heart and treasure my commandments within you.
Proverbs 4:5-6
Achieve wisdom and understanding! Do not forget or ignore what I say.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me. Those who earnestly seek me will find me.
Matthew 13:11
He responded: You are allowed to know the divine secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but it is not for others to know. (The Greek word for you is plural and is applied to the disciples as a group.)
John 3:17
God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world. Instead the world should be saved through him.
John 3:19-21
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world. People loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil.
John 5:34
The testimony I receive is not from man. However I say these things that you may be saved.
John 8:45-47
I tell you the truth and you do not believe me.
Romans 2:7-8
[He offers] everlasting life for those who search for incorruptible glory and honor by enduring in good works.
Romans 6:17
But thanks to God, that you were the servants of sin yet you became obedient from the heart to the teachings delivered to you.
Romans 10:1
Brothers, my hearts desire and my prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation.
Romans 16:18
They do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unaware.
1 Corinthians 16:22
If any man does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. Come O Lord!
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God. We are an aroma for those who are saved and those who perish.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God; but sincere and from God. We speak in Christ in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 4:2-3
We have renounced the hidden things of shame. And we do not walk in craftiness and deceit. We do not adulterate the word of God. But by the manifestation of the truth we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, fashioning themselves into apostles of Christ.
2 Corinthians 11:15
It is no great thing therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works.
Ephesians 4:14
We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
They hindered us from speaking to the nations so that they may be saved. The result was that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.
1 Timothy 2:4
It is God's desire that all men have salvation and come to the full (precise) (accurate) (correct) knowledge (Greek: epignosis: recognition, discernment) of the truth.
Hebrews 3:13
Encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called Today, that none 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 are creatures without reason. They were born mere animals to be taken and destroyed! They speak abusively in matters of which they are ignorant. They suffer destruction in their own course of destruction.
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering arrogant words of vanity, they entice in the desires (lusts) of the flesh, by sensuality (lasciviousness), those who are just escaping from the ones who live in error.