Thematic Bible: Social in the church
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Evil » Social in the church » Generation
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: 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 hither.
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also 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 hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
Evil » Social in the church » In politics
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.
Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged 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 shewed 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 hither 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 subtilty and all mischief, thou child 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: 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.
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.