Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
Nor abide
General references
Bible References
Rebel
Luke 12:47
The servant who knew his lord and master's orders and did not prepare for them, will receive many lashes;
John 3:19
And this is the sentence of condemnation, that the Light has entered the world and yet men have preferred darkness to light. It is because their actions have been evil;
John 9:39
Then said Jesus, "It is for judgment that I have come into this world, to make the sightless see, to make the seeing blind."
John 15:22
They would not be guilty, if I had not come and spoken to them; but, as it is, they have no excuse for their sin ??23 he who hates me hates my Father also.
Romans 1:32
though they know God's decree that people who practise such vice deserve death, they not only do it themselves but applaud those who practise it.
Romans 2:17
If you bear the name of 'Jew,' relying on the Law, priding yourself on God,
James 4:17
[follows 2:26] Whoever, then, knows what is right to do and does not do it, that is a sin for him.
Nor abide
John 8:31
So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:
John 15:6
If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned.
2 Peter 2:20
After escaping the pollutions of the world by the knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ, if they get entangled and overpowered again, the last state is worse for them than the first.
1 John 2:19
They withdrew from us, but they did not belong to us; had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us, but they withdrew to make it plain that they are none of us.
Jude 1:6
while the angels who abandoned their own domain, instead of preserving their proper rank, are reserved by him within the nether gloom, in chains eternal, for the doom of the great Day ??7 just as Sodom and Gomorra and the adjacent cities, which similarly glutted themselves with vice and sensual perversity, are exhibited as a warning of the everlasting fire they are sentenced to suffer.
General references
John 1:5
amid the darkness the Light shone, but the darkness did not master it.