Thematic Bible: Social in the church
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Evil » Social in the church » Generation
And with many more other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this crooked generation.
They have dealt corruptly with him. [They are] not his sons, [it is] their blemish, a perverse and crooked generation.
And having answered, Jesus said, O faithless and perverted generation, how long will I be with you and endure you? Bring thy son here.
Then it goes, and takes with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having enter in, they dwell there. And the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So it will also be to this evil generation.
There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them, Ye offspring of vipers, who showed you to flee from the coming wrath?
But having answered, he said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet.
Evil » Social in the church » In politics
But, that the word that is written in their law may be fulfilled, They hated me without cause.
They also who render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow the thing that is good.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
He who rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before thee to speak good for them, to turn away thy wrath from them.
Jesus answered them, I have shown you many good works from my Father. Because of them, which work do ye stone me?
Evil » Social in the church » Fulness
And in the fourth generation they shall come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.
having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;
said, O man full of all deceit and all recklessness, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, will thou not cease distorting the straight ways of Lord?
This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.
So then ye testify to yourselves that ye are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Then fill ye up the measure of your fathers.