Thematic Bible: Common delusions
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Common delusions » Thinking that there is plenty of time
constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be the end of piety.
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And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;
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For if any man reputes himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself;
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Common delusions » Thinking that sin will give fulness of life
but God knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be as God, knowing good and evil. And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a pleasure for the eyes, and the tree was to be desired to give intelligence; and she took of its fruit, and ate, and gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
Common delusions » Presuming upon unchanging conditions
Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain, ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, (for what is your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)
Common delusions » Self-confidence
And Peter answering said to him, If all shall be offended in thee, I will never be offended.
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Common delusions » Trusting in racial connections for salvation
And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
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Common delusions » Using vain repetitions in prayer
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as those who are of the nations: for they think they shall be heard through their much speaking.
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Common delusions » Thinking the deity is represented by idols
Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination.
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Common delusions » Trusting in riches
and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid by for many years; repose thyself, eat, drink, be merry.
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Common delusions » Building on sand
And he that has heard and not done, is like a man who has built a house on the ground without a foundation, on which the stream broke, and immediately it fell, and the breach of that house was great.
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