Thematic Bible: Increment of
Thematic Bible
Sin » Increment of » Inexcusable
So, whoever you are, you people do not have any excuse for judging people [Note: At this point Paul begins addressing the Jews. See verse 17]. For in a matter where you judge someone else [to be wrong] you [actually] condemn yourselves, because you are practicing the same things [you condemn them for doing].
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They would not be guilty of sinning if I had not come and spoken to them. But now [that I have], they have no excuse for their sin.
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For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities of eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, [capable of] being perceived through the things that He has made. So, these people have no excuse [i.e., for not believing in Him].
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Sin » Increment of » Illustrated in the life of backsliders
For if people who have escaped from the defiling practices of the world by coming to know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, become tangled up in them again, and are overcome by them, these people are worse off than before they were converted.
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Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits, more evil than itself, and they reenter [the body] and [begin to] live there, so that the latter state of that person becomes worse than the former [state]. It will be the same way with the people of this evil generation."
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Sin » Increment of » Seen in the history of israel
Sin » Increment of » Will become more evident in the last days
But evil people and impostors will go from bad to worse [in their behavior], deceiving people and being deceived by them.
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Sin » Increment of » Shown by increasing insensitiveness of the spiritual faculties
For these people's minds are dull, and their ears have difficulty hearing, and they have shut their eyes. For if this were not the case, they would perceive what they see with their eyes, and comprehend what they hear with their ears, and understand with their minds and would turn [back to God] again so I would heal them [from their sins].'
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Sin » Increment of » The steps in peter's fall illustrate
Then Peter began to curse and swear, "[I tell you], I do not know the man." And immediately a rooster crowed.
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