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Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.
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1 Corinthians 1 18
For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is the power of God to us who are being saved.
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2 Corinthians 4 2-2 Corinthians 4 3
Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting deceitfully or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth.But if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
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1 Corinthians 16 22
If anyone does not love the Lord, a curse be on him. Our Lord, come!
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2 Peter 2 12
But these people, like irrational animals— creatures of instinct born to be caught and destroyed— slander what they do not understand, and in their destruction they too will be destroyed.
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John 8:45-47
Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.Who among you can convict me of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”
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Romans 16:18
because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.
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2 Corinthians 11 15
So it is no great surprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their works.
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Romans 2:7-8
eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality;but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth while obeying unrighteousness.
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1 Timothy 2 4
who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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Romans 6:17
But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over,
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John 3:17
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
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Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me, and those who search for me find me.
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Proverbs 2:1-6
My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding;furthermore, if you call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure,then you will understand the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
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Proverbs 4:5-6
Get wisdom, get understanding; don’t forget or turn away from the words from my mouth.Don’t abandon wisdom, and she will watch over you; love her, and she will guard you.
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2 Corinthians 2 15
For to God we are the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.
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Romans 10:1
Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God concerning them is for their salvation.
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John 5:34
I don’t receive human testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
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Matthew 13:11
He answered,“ Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.
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2 Corinthians 11 13
For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
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1 Thessalonians 2 16
by keeping us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are constantly filling up their sins to the limit, and wrath has overtaken them at last.
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2 Corinthians 2 17
For we do not market the word of God for profit like so many. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.
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John 3:19-21
This is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.For everyone who does evil hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”
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Ephesians 4:14
Then we will no longer be little children, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.
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Hebrews 3:13
But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.
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2 Peter 2 18
For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.
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James 1:16-18
Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.