Luke 6:49
Proverbs 28:18
He who walks blamelessly and uprightly will be kept safe,
But he who is crooked (perverse) will suddenly fall.
Jeremiah 44:16-17
“As for the word (message) that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you.
Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not practice them; for with their mouth they express loving devotion, but their heart goes after their (unlawful) gain.
Hosea 4:14
I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute
Or your brides when they commit adultery,
For the men themselves slip away with prostitutes,
And they offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes [who give their bodies in honor of the idol].
So the people without understanding [stumble and fall and] come to ruin.
Matthew 12:43-45
Matthew 13:20-22
Matthew 21:29-30
Matthew 23:3
Matthew 24:10
Mark 4:17
Luke 6:46
Luke 8:5-7
Luke 10:12-16
Luke 11:24-26
Luke 12:47
Luke 19:14
Luke 19:27
[The king ended by saying,]
John 15:2
Acts 20:29
I know that after I am gone, [false teachers like] ferocious wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock;
Acts 26:11
And I often punished them [making them suffer] in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme; and in my extreme rage at them, I kept hunting them even to foreign cities [harassing and persecuting them].
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this reason, when I could no longer endure the suspense, I sent someone to find out about your faith [how you were holding up under pressure], for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our work [among you] would prove to be ineffective.
Hebrews 10:26-29
For if we go on willfully and deliberately sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice [to atone] for our sins [that is, no further offering to anticipate],
James 1:22-26
But prove yourselves doers of the word [actively and continually obeying God’s precepts], and not merely listeners [who hear the word but fail to internalize its meaning], deluding yourselves [by unsound reasoning contrary to the truth].
James 2:17-26
So too, faith, if it does not have works [to back it up], is by itself dead [inoperative and ineffective].
2 Peter 1:5-9
For this very reason, applying your diligence [to the divine promises, make every effort] in [exercising] your faith to,
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world by [personal] knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, their last condition has become worse for them than the first.
1 John 2:3-4
And this is how we know [daily, by experience] that we have come to know Him [to understand Him and be more deeply acquainted with Him]: if we habitually keep [focused on His precepts and obey] His commandments (teachings).
1 John 2:19
They went out from us [seeming at first to be Christians], but they were not really of us [because they were not truly born again and spiritually transformed]; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out [teaching false doctrine], so that it would be clearly shown that none of them are of us.
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He who walks blamelessly and uprightly will be kept safe,
But he who is crooked (perverse) will suddenly fall.
I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute
Or your brides when they commit adultery,
For the men themselves slip away with prostitutes,
And they offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes [who give their bodies in honor of the idol].
So the people without understanding [stumble and fall and] come to ruin.