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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 message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.
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2 Corinthians 4 2-2 Corinthians 4 3
Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight 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. Marantha that is, 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— speak blasphemies about things they don’t 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 tell 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
for 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 thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their destiny 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 indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth but are 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 you were transferred to,
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John 3:17
For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved 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 of 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, 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 man’s testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
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Matthew 13:11
He answered them,“ 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
hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. As a result, they are always completing the number of their sins, and wrath has overtaken them at last.
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2 Corinthians 2 17
For we are not like the many who market God’s message for profit. On the contrary, we speak with sincerity in Christ, as from God and before God.
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John 3:19-21
“ This, then, 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 practices wicked things 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 dearly loved brothers.Every generous act and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights; with Him there is no variation or shadow cast by turning.By His own choice, He gave us a new birth by the message of truth so that we would be the firstfruits of His creatures.