6 Bible Verses about Self Will
Most Relevant Verses
But his subjects hated him and sent envoys after him to say 'We will not have this man as our King.'
especially those who, following the promptings of their lower nature, indulge their polluting passions and despise all control. Audacious and self-willed, they feel no awe of the Mighty, maligning them,
They then sang a hymn, and went out up the Mount of Olives, Presently Jesus said to them: "All of you will fall away; for Scripture says--'I will strike down the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.' Yet, after I have risen, I shall go before you into Galilee."read more.
"Even if every one else falls away," said Peter, "yet I shall not." "I tell you," answered Jesus, "that you yourself today--yes, this very night--before the cock crows twice, will disown me three times." But Peter vehemently protested: "Even if I must die with you, I shall never disown you!" And they all said the same.
O! stubborn race, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still.
For a Presiding-Officer, as God's steward, ought to be a man of irreproachable character; not self-willed or quick-tempered, nor addicted to drink or to brawling or to questionable money-making.
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says-- 'If to-day you hear God's voice, Harden not your hearts, as when Israel provoked me on the day when they tried my patience in the desert, Where your ancestors tried my forbearance, And saw my mighty deeds for forty years.read more.
Therefore I was sorely vexed with that generation, And I said-- "Their hearts are always straying; They have never learned my ways"; While in my wrath I swore-- "They shall never enter upon my Rest."' Be careful, Brothers, that there is never found in any one of you a wicked and faithless heart, shown by his separating himself from the Living God.
Bible Theasaurus
- Self (115 instances)
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