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2 Timothy 2 25
instructing his opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance leading them to the knowledge of the truth.
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2 Timothy 4 3-2 Timothy 4 4
For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear.They will turn away from hearing the truth and will turn aside to myths.
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1 Corinthians 3 1-1 Corinthians 3 4
For my part, brothers and sisters, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, since you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready,because you are still worldly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not worldly and behaving like mere humans?For whenever someone says,“ I belong to Paul,” and another,“ I belong to Apollos,” are you not acting like mere humans?
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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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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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1 Timothy 2 4
who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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Hebrews 5:11
We have a great deal to say about this, and it is difficult to explain, since you have become too lazy to understand.
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Isaiah 30:10-11
They say to the seers,“ Do not see,” and to the prophets,“ Do not prophesy the truth to us. Tell us flattering things. Prophesy illusions.Get out of the way! Leave the pathway. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel.”
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Proverbs 14:6
A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to the perceptive.
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John 5:44
How can you believe, since you accept glory from one another but don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
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John 3:20-21
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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Deuteronomy 29:4
Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
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Ezekiel 14:4-10
“ Therefore, speak to them and tell them,‘ This is what the Lord GOD says: When anyone from the house of Israel sets up idols in his heart and puts his sinful stumbling block in front of himself, and then comes to the prophet, I, the LORD, will answer him appropriately. I will answer him according to his many idols,so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from me because of their idols.’“ Therefore, say to the house of Israel,‘ This is what the Lord GOD says: Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces away from all your detestable things.For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the aliens who reside in Israel separates himself from me, setting up idols in his heart and putting his sinful stumbling block in front of himself, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of me, I, the LORD, will answer him myself.I will turn against that one and make him a sign and a proverb; I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.“‘ But if the prophet is deceived and speaks a message, it was I, the LORD, who deceived that prophet. I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.They will bear their punishment— the punishment of the one who inquires will be the same as that of the prophet—
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John 12:42-43
Nevertheless, many did believe in him even among the rulers, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, so that they would not be banned from the synagogue.For they loved human praise more than praise from God.
