Thematic Bible: Social in the church
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Evil » Social in the church » Generation
And with many other words he testified and exhorted, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is that they are not his sons; they are a perverse and crooked generation.
And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and suffer you? Bring thy son here.
Then it goes and takes with itself seven other spirits worse than itself, and they enter in and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it also be unto this wicked generation.
There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who taught you to flee from the wrath to come?
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there no sign shall be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah;
Evil » Social in the church » In politics
But this comes to pass that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
rendering evil for good they are against me because I follow that which is good.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Whosoever 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 that I stood before thee to speak good for them and to turn away thy wrath from them.
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
Evil » Social in the church » Fulness
But in the fourth generation they shall come here again; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
and said, O full of all deception and all licentiousness, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all; and also that 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.
Therefore ye are witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.