Bible Cross References
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1 Peter 1:1
From Peter, apostle of Jesus Christ--- To God's chosen people who live as refugees scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia.
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Romans 8:1-39
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There is no condemnation now for those who live in union with Christ Jesus.
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For the law of the Spirit, which brings us life in union with Christ Jesus, has set me free from the law of sin and death.
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What the Law could not do, because human nature was weak, God did. He condemned sin in human nature by sending his own Son, who came with a nature like our sinful nature, to do away with sin.
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God did this so that the righteous demands of the Law might be fully satisfied in us who live according to the Spirit, and not according to human nature.
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Those who live as their human nature tells them to, have their minds controlled by what human nature wants. Those who live as the Spirit tells them to, have their minds controlled by what the Spirit wants.
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To be controlled by human nature results in death; to be controlled by the Spirit results in life and peace.
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And so people become enemies of God when they are controlled by their human nature; for they do not obey God's law, and in fact they cannot obey it.
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Those who obey their human nature cannot please God.
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But you do not live as your human nature tells you to; instead, you live as the Spirit tells you to---if, in fact, God's Spirit lives in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
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But if Christ lives in you, the Spirit is life for you because you have been put right with God, even though your bodies are going to die because of sin.
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If the Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from death, lives in you, then he who raised Christ from death will also give life to your mortal bodies by the presence of his Spirit in you.
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So then, my friends, we have an obligation, but it is not to live as our human nature wants us to.
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For if you live according to your human nature, you are going to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death your sinful actions, you will live.
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Those who are led by God's Spirit are God's children.
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For the Spirit that God has given you does not make you slaves and cause you to be afraid; instead, the Spirit makes you God's children, and by the Spirit's power we cry out to God, "Father! my Father!"
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God's Spirit joins himself to our spirits to declare that we are God's children.
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Since we are his children, we will possess the blessings he keeps for his people, and we will also possess with Christ what God has kept for him; for if we share Christ's suffering, we will also share his glory.
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I consider that what we suffer at this present time cannot be compared at all with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.
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All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his children.
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For creation was condemned to lose its purpose, not of its own will, but because God willed it to be so. Yet there was the hope
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that creation itself would one day be set free from its slavery to decay and would share the glorious freedom of the children of God.
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For we know that up to the present time all of creation groans with pain, like the pain of childbirth.
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But it is not just creation alone which groans; we who have the Spirit as the first of God's gifts also groan within ourselves as we wait for God to make us his children and set our whole being free.
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For it was by hope that we were saved; but if we see what we hope for, then it is not really hope. For who of us hopes for something we see?
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But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
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In the same way the Spirit also comes to help us, weak as we are. For we do not know how we ought to pray; the Spirit himself pleads with God for us in groans that words cannot express.
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And God, who sees into our hearts, knows what the thought of the Spirit is; because the Spirit pleads with God on behalf of his people and in accordance with his will.
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We know that in all things God works for good with those who love him, those whom he has called according to his purpose.
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Those whom God had already chosen he also set apart to become like his Son, so that the Son would be the first among many believers.
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And so those whom God set apart, he called; and those he called, he put right with himself, and he shared his glory with them.
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In view of all this, what can we say? If God is for us, who can be against us?
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Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son---will he not also freely give us all things?
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Who will accuse God's chosen people? God himself declares them not guilty!
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Who, then, will condemn them? Not Christ Jesus, who died, or rather, who was raised to life and is at the right side of God, pleading with him for us!
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Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship or persecution or hunger or poverty or danger or death?
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As the scripture says, "For your sake we are in danger of death at all times; we are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered."
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No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us!
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For I am certain that nothing can separate us from his love: neither death nor life, neither angels nor other heavenly rulers or powers, neither the present nor the future,
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neither the world above nor the world below---there is nothing in all creation that will ever be able to separate us from the love of God which is ours through Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:1-58
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And now I want to remind you, my friends, of the Good News which I preached to you, which you received, and on which your faith stands firm.
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That is the gospel, the message that I preached to you. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it---unless it was for nothing that you believed.
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I passed on to you what I received, which is of the greatest importance: that Christ died for our sins, as written in the Scriptures;
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that he was buried and that he was raised to life three days later, as written in the Scriptures;
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that he appeared to Peter and then to all twelve apostles.
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Then he appeared to more than five hundred of his followers at once, most of whom are still alive, although some have died.
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Then he appeared to James, and afterward to all the apostles.
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Last of all he appeared also to me---even though I am like someone whose birth was abnormal.
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For I am the least of all the apostles---I do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted God's church.
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But by God's grace I am what I am, and the grace that he gave me was not without effect. On the contrary, I have worked harder than any of the other apostles, although it was not really my own doing, but God's grace working with me.
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So then, whether it came from me or from them, this is what we all preach, and this is what you believe.
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Now, since our message is that Christ has been raised from death, how can some of you say that the dead will not be raised to life?
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If that is true, it means that Christ was not raised;
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and if Christ has not been raised from death, then we have nothing to preach and you have nothing to believe.
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More than that, we are shown to be lying about God, because we said that he raised Christ from death---but if it is true that the dead are not raised to life, then he did not raise Christ.
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For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised.
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And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is a delusion and you are still lost in your sins.
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It would also mean that the believers in Christ who have died are lost.
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If our hope in Christ is good for this life only and no more, then we deserve more pity than anyone else in all the world.
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But the truth is that Christ has been raised from death, as the guarantee that those who sleep in death will also be raised.
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For just as death came by means of a man, in the same way the rising from death comes by means of a man.
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For just as all people die because of their union with Adam, in the same way all will be raised to life because of their union with Christ.
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But each one will be raised in proper order: Christ, first of all; then, at the time of his coming, those who belong to him.
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Then the end will come; Christ will overcome all spiritual rulers, authorities, and powers, and will hand over the Kingdom to God the Father.
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For Christ must rule until God defeats all enemies and puts them under his feet.
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The last enemy to be defeated will be death.
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For the scripture says, "God put all things under his feet." It is clear, of course, that the words "all things" do not include God himself, who puts all things under Christ.
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But when all things have been placed under Christ's rule, then he himself, the Son, will place himself under God, who placed all things under him; and God will rule completely over all.
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Now, what about those people who are baptized for the dead? What do they hope to accomplish? If it is true, as some claim, that the dead are not raised to life, why are those people being baptized for the dead?
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And as for us---why would we run the risk of danger every hour?
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My friends, I face death every day! The pride I have in you, in our life in union with Christ Jesus our Lord, makes me declare this.
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If I have, as it were, fought "wild beasts" here in Ephesus simply from human motives, what have I gained? But if the dead are not raised to life, then, as the saying goes, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die."
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Do not be fooled. "Bad companions ruin good character."
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Come back to your right senses and stop your sinful ways. I declare to your shame that some of you do not know God.
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Someone will ask, "How can the dead be raised to life? What kind of body will they have?"
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You fool! When you plant a seed in the ground, it does not sprout to life unless it dies.
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And what you plant is a bare seed, perhaps a grain of wheat or some other grain, not the full-bodied plant that will later grow up.
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God provides that seed with the body he wishes; he gives each seed its own proper body.
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And the flesh of living beings is not all the same kind of flesh; human beings have one kind of flesh, animals another, birds another, and fish another.
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And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; the beauty that belongs to heavenly bodies is different from the beauty that belongs to earthly bodies.
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The sun has its own beauty, the moon another beauty, and the stars a different beauty; and even among stars there are different kinds of beauty.
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This is how it will be when the dead are raised to life. When the body is buried, it is mortal; when raised, it will be immortal.
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When buried, it is ugly and weak; when raised, it will be beautiful and strong.
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When buried, it is a physical body; when raised, it will be a spiritual body. There is, of course, a physical body, so there has to be a spiritual body.
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For the scripture says, "The first man, Adam, was created a living being"; but the last Adam is the life-giving Spirit.
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It is not the spiritual that comes first, but the physical, and then the spiritual.
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The first Adam, made of earth, came from the earth; the second Adam came from heaven.
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Those who belong to the earth are like the one who was made of earth; those who are of heaven are like the one who came from heaven.
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Just as we wear the likeness of the man made of earth, so we will wear the likeness of the Man from heaven.
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What I mean, friends, is that what is made of flesh and blood cannot share in God's Kingdom, and what is mortal cannot possess immortality.
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Listen to this secret truth: we shall not all die, but when the last trumpet sounds, we shall all be changed in an instant, as quickly as the blinking of an eye. For when the trumpet sounds, the dead will be raised, never to die again, and we shall all be changed.
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(SEE 15:51)
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For what is mortal must be changed into what is immortal; what will die must be changed into what cannot die.
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So when this takes place, and the mortal has been changed into the immortal, then the scripture will come true: "Death is destroyed; victory is complete!"
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"Where, Death, is your victory? Where, Death, is your power to hurt?"
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Death gets its power to hurt from sin, and sin gets its power from the Law.
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But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!
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So then, my dear friends, stand firm and steady. Keep busy always in your work for the Lord, since you know that nothing you do in the Lord's service is ever useless.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-5
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Finally, our friends, you learned from us how you should live in order to please God. This is, of course, the way you have been living. And now we beg and urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to do even more.
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For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
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God wants you to be holy and completely free from sexual immorality.
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Each of you should know how to live with your wife in a holy and honorable way,
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not with a lustful desire, like the heathen who do not know God.
2 Kings 1:1-18
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After the death of King Ahab of Israel the country of Moab rebelled against Israel.
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King Ahaziah of Israel fell off the balcony on the roof of his palace in Samaria and was seriously injured. So he sent some messengers to consult Baalzebub, the god of the Philistine city of Ekron, in order to find out whether or not he would recover.
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But an angel of the LORD commanded Elijah, the prophet from Tishbe, to go and meet the messengers of King Ahaziah and ask them, "Why are you going to consult Baalzebub, the god of Ekron? Is it because you think there is no god in Israel?
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Tell the king that the LORD says, 'You will not recover from your injuries; you will die!' " Elijah did as the LORD commanded,
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and the messengers returned to the king. "Why have you come back?" he asked.
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They answered, "We were met by a man who told us to come back and tell you that the LORD says to you, 'Why are you sending messengers to consult Baalzebub, the god of Ekron? Is it because you think there is no god in Israel? You will not recover from your injuries; you will die!' "
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"What did the man look like?" the king asked.
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"He was wearing a cloak made of animal skins, tied with a leather belt," they answered. "It's Elijah!" the king exclaimed.
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Then he sent an officer with fifty men to get Elijah. The officer found him sitting on a hill and said to him, "Man of God, the king orders you to come down."
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"If I am a man of God," Elijah answered, "may fire come down from heaven and kill you and your men!" At once fire came down and killed the officer and his men.
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The king sent another officer with fifty men, who went up and said to Elijah, "Man of God, the king orders you to come down at once!"
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"If I am a man of God," Elijah answered, "may fire come down from heaven and kill you and your men!" At once the fire of God came down and killed the officer and his men.
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Once more the king sent an officer with fifty men. He went up the hill, fell on his knees in front of Elijah, and pleaded, "Man of God, be merciful to me and my men. Spare our lives!
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The two other officers and their men were killed by fire from heaven; but please be merciful to me!"
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The angel of the LORD said to Elijah, "Go down with him, and don't be afraid." So Elijah went with the officer to the king
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and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Because you sent messengers to consult Baalzebub, the god of Ekron---as if there were no god in Israel to consult---you will not get well; you will die!' "
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Ahaziah died, as the LORD had said through Elijah. Ahaziah had no sons, so his brother Joram succeeded him as king in the second year of the reign of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.
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Everything else that King Ahaziah did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.
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1 Kings 10:1
The queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame, and she traveled to Jerusalem to test him with difficult questions.
Hebrews 5:11
There is much we have to say about this matter, but it is hard to explain to you, because you are so slow to understand.
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2 Peter 2:14
They want to look for nothing but the chance to commit adultery; their appetite for sin is never satisfied. They lead weak people into a trap. Their hearts are trained to be greedy. They are under God's curse!
Genesis 49:4
You are like a raging flood, But you will not be the most important, For you slept with my concubine And dishonored your father's bed.
2 Timothy 3:5-7
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they will hold to the outward form of our religion, but reject its real power. Keep away from such people.
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Some of them go into people's houses and gain control over weak women who are burdened by the guilt of their sins and driven by all kinds of desires,
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women who are always trying to learn but who can never come to know the truth.
James 1:8
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Exodus 23:2
Do not follow the majority when they do wrong or when they give testimony that perverts justice.
Exodus 23:6
"Do not deny justice to a poor person when he appears in court.
Deuteronomy 16:19
They are not to be unjust or show partiality in their judgments; and they are not to accept bribes, for gifts blind the eyes even of wise and honest men, and cause them to give wrong decisions.
Psalm 56:5
My enemies make trouble for me all day long; they are always thinking up some way to hurt me!
Habakkuk 1:4
The law is weak and useless, and justice is never done. Evil people get the better of the righteous, and so justice is perverted.
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Jeremiah 23:36
So they must no longer use the words 'the LORD's burden,' because if any of them do, I will make my message a real burden to them. The people have perverted the words of their God, the living God, the LORD Almighty.
Matthew 15:3
Jesus answered, "And why do you disobey God's command and follow your own teaching?
Matthew 15:6
they do not need to honor their father. In this way you disregard God's command, in order to follow your own teaching.
Matthew 22:29
Jesus answered them, "How wrong you are! It is because you don't know the Scriptures or God's power.
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2 Peter 2:1
False prophets appeared in the past among the people, and in the same way false teachers will appear among you. They will bring in destructive, untrue doctrines, and will deny the Master who redeemed them, and so they will bring upon themselves sudden destruction.
Philippians 3:19
They are going to end up in hell, because their god is their bodily desires. They are proud of what they should be ashamed of, and they think only of things that belong to this world.
1 Peter 2:8
And another scripture says, "This is the stone that will make people stumble, the rock that will make them fall." They stumbled because they did not believe in the word; such was God's will for them.
Jude 1:4
For some godless people have slipped in unnoticed among us, persons who distort the message about the grace of our God in order to excuse their immoral ways, and who reject Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord. Long ago the Scriptures predicted the condemnation they have received.