7 Bible Verses about Imperfection, And God's Purposes
Most Relevant Verses
according as he hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unblameable before Him in love:
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave up Himself for it: to sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that He might prepare it for Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it should be holy and unblameable.
What! know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor rapacious persons, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, (who is an idolater,) hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
For if we sin wilfully after having received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins; but a dreadful expectation of judgement, and a fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
And nothing shall enter into it that defileth, and practiseth abomination and falshood: but those only who are written in the Lamb's book of life.
But without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one that loveth and practiseth falshood.
Bible Theasaurus
- Purposes (100 instances)
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- Abominations
- Animals, religious role of
- Benefits Of Heaven
- Blemish
- Blemished Creatures
- Covetousness
- Cripples
- Defectiveness
- 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
- Sanctification, Nature And Basis
- Sexual Immorality Brings Punishment
- Sexuality
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