Thematic Bible: Common delusions
Thematic Bible
Common delusions » Thinking that there is plenty of time
and perpetual friction between people who are depraved in mind and deprived of truth, who imagine that religion is only a means of gain.
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But as he continued to talk about uprightness, self-control, and the coming judgment, Felix became alarmed, and said, "For the present you may go, but when I find a good opportunity, I will send for you."
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For if anybody thinks he is somebody when really he is nobody, he deceives himself.
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Common delusions » Thinking that sin will give fulness of life
Common delusions » Presuming upon unchanging conditions
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to such and such a city and stay a year, go into business and make money," although you do not have the slightest knowledge of tomorrow. What is the nature of your life? It is really nothing but a mist which appears for a little while and then disappears.
Common delusions » Self-confidence
Peter answered, "Though all the rest of them stumble over you, I will never do so."
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Common delusions » Trusting in racial connections for salvation
and do not presume to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our forefather? For I tell you, God can raise up descendants for Abraham even out of these stones.
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Common delusions » Using vain repetitions in prayer
And whenever you pray, you must not keep on repeating set phrases, as the heathen do, for they suppose that they will be heard in accordance with the length of their prayers,
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Common delusions » Thinking the deity is represented by idols
Since then we are God's offspring, we ought not to suppose that His nature is like gold or silver or stone or anything carved by man's art and thought.
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Common delusions » Trusting in riches
Then I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Go on taking your ease; continue to eat, drink, and enjoy yourself."'
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Common delusions » Building on sand
But the man who merely hears them and does not practice them is like a man who built a house upon the ground without a foundation. The torrent burst upon it, and at once it collapsed, and the wreck of that house was complete."
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