16 Bible Verses about Unreliability
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Why, I felt in my heart that the end must be death. That was to keep me from relying on myself instead of on God, who can even raise the dead.
When he went back to the disciples he found them asleep. And he said to Peter, "Then were you not able to watch with me for one hour?
When he went back he found them asleep and he said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Were you not able to watch for one hour?
When he got up from his prayer, he went to the disciples and found them asleep from sorrow.
But this has all taken place in fulfilment of the writings of the prophets." Then all the disciples left him and made their escape.
Then all the disciples left him and made their escape.
For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am the Christ,' and many will be misled by them.
And he said, "Take care not to be misled. For many will come under my name, and say, 'I am he,' and 'The time is at hand.' Do not follow them.
For this world's wisdom is foolishness to God. For the Scripture says, "He who catches the wise with their own cunning," and "The Lord knows that the deliberations of the wise are fruitless."
For the Scripture says, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And I will thwart the shrewdness of the shrewd!" Where now is your philosopher? Your scribe? Your reasoner of today? Has not God made a fool of the world's wisdom? For since in God's providence the world with all its wisdom did not come to know God, God chose, through the folly of the gospel message, to save those who had faith in him.
Such practices pass for wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, and their ascetic discipline, but they carry with them no real distinction, they are really only a catering to the flesh.
Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back where it belongs! For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.
"Do not store up your riches on earth, where moths and rust destroy them, and where thieves break in and steal them,
And what was sown among the thorns means the man who listens to the message, and then the worries of the time and the pleasure of being rich choke the message out, and it yields nothing.
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