"You are the salt of the world. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty again? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled on by people.

So I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.

"Whenever an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it wanders through dry places looking for a place to rest but doesn't find any. So it says, "I will go back to my home that I left.'

Unless a person abides in me, he is thrown away like a pruned branch and dries up. People gather such branches, throw them into a fire, and they are burned up.

and gentle when refuting opponents. After all, maybe God will allow them to repent and to come to a full knowledge of the truth,

Alexander the metalworker did me a great deal of harm. The Lord will pay him back for what he did.

For if, after escaping the world's corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah, they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray that God would give him life. This applies to those who commit sins that do not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not telling you to pray about that.

Were once

But you must continue to remember those earlier days, how after you were enlightened you endured a hard and painful struggle.

Balaam uttered this prophetic statement: "A declaration by Beor's son Balaam, a declaration by the strong, blind man.

And have

"Not everyone who keeps saying to me, "Lord, Lord,' will get into the kingdom from heaven, but only the person who keeps doing the will of my Father in heaven.

Look! I have given you the authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to destroy all the enemy's power, and nothing will ever hurt you.

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven.

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

But Peter told him, "May your money perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God's free gift with money!

Then the circumcised believers who had come with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the gentiles, too,

Now if God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, who was I to try to stop God?"

For I am longing to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong,

If I speak in the languages of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal.

For by such grace you have been saved through faith. This does not come from you; it is the gift of God

I have become a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God's grace that was given me by the working of his power.

Now to each one of us grace has been given proportionate to the measure of the Messiah's gift.

Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy when the elders laid their hands on you.

Every generous act of giving and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father who made the heavenly lights, in whom there is no inconsistency or shifting shadow.

Partakers

while God added his testimony through signs, wonders, various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

God, who knows everyone's heart, showed them he approved by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.

I want to learn only one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the actions of the Law or by believing what you heard?

General references

"If the contagion returns and spreads throughout the house after the stones have been removed, after the house has been scraped out, and after it has been re-coated,

I tell all of you with certainty, people will be forgiven their sins and whatever blasphemies they utter.

Everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but the person who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit won't be forgiven.

and say, "This person started a building but couldn't finish it.'

Show mercy to those who have doubts.