Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

They refuse

Bible References

They hold

1 Thessalonians 5:21
but test them all, retaining what is good
2 Thessalonians 2:9
The other's appearance, by the contrivance of Satan, will be full of power and pretended signs and wonders,
Revelation 2:25
but keep hold of what you have, until I come.

They refuse

John 5:40
yet you refuse to come to me for life.
Hebrews 12:25
Take care not to refuse to listen to him who is speaking. For if they could not escape because they would not listen to him who warned them here on earth, how much less can we, who reject him who is from heaven!