Bible Cross References
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Matthew 12:43-45
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"When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one,
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it says to itself, 'I will go back to my house.' So it goes back and finds the house empty, clean, and all fixed up.
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Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day."
Matthew 13:19-22
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Those who hear the message about the Kingdom but do not understand it are like the seeds that fell along the path. The Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in them.
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The seeds that fell on rocky ground stand for those who receive the message gladly as soon as they hear it.
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But it does not sink deep into them, and they don't last long. So when trouble or persecution comes because of the message, they give up at once.
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The seeds that fell among thorn bushes stand for those who hear the message; but the worries about this life and the love for riches choke the message, and they don't bear fruit.
Ezekiel 13:10-16
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"The prophets mislead my people by saying that all is well. All is certainly not well! My people have put up a wall of loose stones, and then the prophets have come and covered it with whitewash.
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Tell the prophets that their wall is going to fall down. I will send a pouring rain. Hailstones will fall on it, and a strong wind will blow against it.
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The wall will collapse, and everyone will ask you what good the whitewash did."
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Now this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "In my anger I will send a strong wind, pouring rain, and hailstones to destroy the wall.
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I intend to break down the wall they whitewashed, to shatter it, and to leave the foundation stones bare. It will collapse and kill you all. Then everyone will know that I am the LORD.
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"The wall and those who covered it with whitewash will feel the force of my anger. Then I will tell you that the wall is gone and so are those who whitewashed it---
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those prophets who assured Jerusalem that all was well, when all was not well!" The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
1 Corinthians 3:13
And the quality of each person's work will be seen when the Day of Christ exposes it. For on that Day fire will reveal everyone's work; the fire will test it and show its real quality.
Hebrews 10:26-31
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For there is no longer any sacrifice that will take away sins if we purposely go on sinning after the truth has been made known to us.
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Instead, all that is left is to wait in fear for the coming Judgment and the fierce fire which will destroy those who oppose God!
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Anyone who disobeys the Law of Moses is put to death without any mercy when judged guilty from the evidence of two or more witnesses.
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What, then, of those who despise the Son of God? who treat as a cheap thing the blood of God's covenant which purified them from sin? who insult the Spirit of grace? Just think how much worse is the punishment they will deserve!
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For we know who said, "I will take revenge, I will repay"; and who also said, "The Lord will judge his people."
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It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God!
2 Peter 2:20-22
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If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in worse condition at the end than they were at the beginning.
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It would have been much better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and then turn away from the sacred command that was given them.
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What happened to them shows that the proverbs are true: "A dog goes back to what it has vomited" and "A pig that has been washed goes back to roll in the mud."