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 continue to prove all things until you can approve them, and then hold on to what is good.
2 Thessalonians 2:9
that is, the representative of lawlessness, whose coming is in accordance with the working of Satan, with his plenitude of power and pretended signs and wonders,
Revelation 2:25
but keep your hold on what you have until I come.

They refuse

John 5:40
but you refuse to come to me to get possession of life.
Hebrews 12:25
See to it that you do not refuse to listen to Him who is speaking to you. For if they did not escape, because they refused to listen to him who warned them here on earth, how much less can we, if we reject Him who is from heaven?