7 Bible Verses about Imperfection, And God's Purposes
Most Relevant Verses
according as He chose us in Him before the founding of a world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love;
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the assembly, and delivered Himself up for it, that He might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of the water in the word, that He might present to Himself the assembly, glorious, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and without blemish.
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God.
For this ye know, assuredly, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
For, if we sin wilfully after we received the full knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fierceness of fire about to devour the opposers.
And there shall in nowise enter into it any thing unclean, or he that works abomination and a lie; but only those written in the Lamb's book of life.
Without are the dogs and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one loving and acting a lie.
Bible Theasaurus
- Purposes (100 instances)
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- Animals, religious role of
- Benefits Of Heaven
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- Exclusion
- God Hiding
- God, Revelation Of
- Grasping
- Greed, Condemnation Of
- Holiness, Believers' Growth In
- Iniquity, Believer's Relation To
- Kingdom Of God, Entry Into
- Loneliness
- Occupants Of Hell
- Perfect Sacrifices
- Prayer, Advice For Effective
- Receptiveness
- Reconciliation, Of The World To God
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- Sexuality
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