Thematic Bible
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divine Call » Heal persecution of » Refused
"He sent out his slaves to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they did not want to come.
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"you will not come to me that you may have life.
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But to Israel he says, All day long I have been spreading out my hands unto a disobedient and contrary people.
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God » Mysteries of » Rejected
So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave you his Holy Spirit.
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but the Pharisees and lawyers who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.
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God's Call » Examples of Leadership » Refused by men
"He sent out his slaves to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they did not want to come.
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"you will not come to me that you may have life.
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But to Israel he says, All day long I have been spreading out my hands unto a disobedient and contrary people.
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King » Demanded by israel
So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave you his Holy Spirit.
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but the Pharisees and lawyers who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.
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Rejected » Christ » God
So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave you his Holy Spirit.
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but the Pharisees and lawyers who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.
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Rejection » Of Christ » Of God
So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave you his Holy Spirit.
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but the Pharisees and lawyers who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.
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Self-delusion » Obstinate sinners often given up to
and with all deceit of unrighteousness for those who are perishing, because they did not receive the love of the truth for their salvation. For this reason God is sending on them an energy of delusion, that they should put faith in a falsehood;
Sexual activities » Why people partake in inappropriate sexual behavior
For although they knew God, yet they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks; but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While they professed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the majesty of the imperishable God for an idol, graven in the likeness of perishable man, or of birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. read more.
So God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their own bodies; because they exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, and worshiped and served the creature, rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen. That is why God has given them up to passions of dishonor; for on the one hand their women actually changed the natural function of sex into that which is against nature; and on the other hand their men likewise abandoned the natural use of women, and were ablaze with passion for one another; men with men practising shameless acts and receiving in their own person that recompense of their wrong-doing which necessarily followed. And just as they refused to continue to retain God in their knowledge, so did God cast them out to an outcast mind, to do those things which were indecent. They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity. They became whisperers, back-biters, hated of God, insolent, haughty, boastful. They invented sins. They were disobedient to parents. They were without sense, without faith, without natural affection, without mercy. Though they knew well the ordinance of God, that those who practise such vices are worthy of death, they not only continue to do the same, but were even applauding those who practise vice.
So God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their own bodies; because they exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, and worshiped and served the creature, rather than the Creator who is blessed forever. Amen. That is why God has given them up to passions of dishonor; for on the one hand their women actually changed the natural function of sex into that which is against nature; and on the other hand their men likewise abandoned the natural use of women, and were ablaze with passion for one another; men with men practising shameless acts and receiving in their own person that recompense of their wrong-doing which necessarily followed. And just as they refused to continue to retain God in their knowledge, so did God cast them out to an outcast mind, to do those things which were indecent. They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity. They became whisperers, back-biters, hated of God, insolent, haughty, boastful. They invented sins. They were disobedient to parents. They were without sense, without faith, without natural affection, without mercy. Though they knew well the ordinance of God, that those who practise such vices are worthy of death, they not only continue to do the same, but were even applauding those who practise vice.
Uncleanness » Why God let people go into uncleanness
For although they knew God, yet they did not glorify him as God, nor give him thanks; but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened. While they professed to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the majesty of the imperishable God for an idol, graven in the likeness of perishable man, or of birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. read more.
So God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their own bodies;
So God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their own bodies;