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
bring every thing to the test: if it be proof, abide by that:
2 Thessalonians 2:9
who by the instigation of satan will make his parade with various arts, with fallacious signs and prodigies,
Revelation 2:25
hold that fast till I come.

They refuse

John 5:40
yet you will not come to me, that ye may have life.
Hebrews 12:25
Take care that you be not deaf to him that speaketh: for if they did not escape, who disregarded the oracles pronounc'd on earth, much less shall we escape, if we turn away from him that delivered the oracles from heaven: