Thematic Bible: Special sources of worldly snares
Thematic Bible
Temptation » Special sources of worldly snares » Seducers
Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,
But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.
Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.
But they did not obey, and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.
"'This is because they have led my people astray saying, "All is well," when things are not well. When anyone builds a wall without mortar, they coat it with whitewash.
For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, the elect.
These things I have written to you about those who are trying to deceive you.
Temptation » Special sources of worldly snares » Enticers
For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.
Suppose your own full brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have previously known,
My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!
The one who leads the upright astray in an evil way will himself fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit what is good.
A violent person entices his neighbor, and leads him down a path that is terrible.
Temptation » Special sources of worldly snares » Silver and gold
You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.
Temptation » Special sources of worldly snares » Friendship with violent men
lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Temptation » Special sources of worldly snares » Broken vows
It is a snare for a person to rashly cry, "Holy!" and only afterward to consider what he has vowed.
Temptation » Special sources of worldly snares » Scoffing
Temptation » Special sources of worldly snares » greed
Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
Temptation » Special sources of worldly snares » Evil associations
know for certain that the Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God gave you.
Temptation » Special sources of worldly snares » Sinful covenants
Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare among you.
Temptation » Special sources of worldly snares » False gods
They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."