Matthew 13:22
And that which was dropped among the thorns, this is he who has the word; and the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, put a stop to the growth of the word and it gives no fruit.
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Matthew 13:22
And that which was dropped among the thorns, this is he who has the word; and the cares of this life, and the deceits of wealth, put a stop to the growth of the word and it gives no fruit.
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Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Job 31:40
Then in place of grain let thorns come up, and in place of barley evil-smelling plants.
Proverbs 10:4
He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.
Proverbs 24:30
I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;
Isaiah 5:2
And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.
Isaiah 5:6
And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
Isaiah 27:4
My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.
Jeremiah 12:13
Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
Matthew 3:10
And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
Matthew 7:16
By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?
Luke 13:6
And he made up this story for them: A certain man had a fig-tree in his garden, and he came to get fruit from it, and there was no fruit.
Luke 19:20
And another came, saying, Lord, here is your pound, which I put away in a cloth;
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Deuteronomy 17:17
And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.
1 Kings 10:21
And all King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold; not one was of silver, for no one gave a thought to silver in the days of King Solomon.
Proverbs 30:8
Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:
Proverbs 30:9
For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.
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Judges 18:23
Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?
Judges 18:24
And he said, You have taken my gods which I made, and my priest, and have gone away; what is there for me now? Why then do you say to me, What is your trouble?
Daniel 6:14
When this thing came to the king's ears, it was very evil to him, and his heart was fixed on keeping Daniel safe, and till the going down of the sun he was doing everything in his power to get him free.
Daniel 6:15
Then these men said to the king, Be certain, O King, that by the law of the Medes and Persians no order or law which the king has put into force may be changed.
Daniel 6:16
Then the king gave the order, and they took Daniel and put him into the lions' hole. The king made answer and said to Daniel, Your God, whose servant you are at all times, will keep you safe.
Daniel 6:17
Then they got a stone and put it over the mouth of the hole, and it was stamped with the king's stamp and with the stamp of the lords, so that the decision about Daniel might not be changed.
Matthew 14:9
And the king was sad; but because of his oaths and because of his guests, he gave the order for it to be given to her;
Mark 6:26
And the king was very sad; but because of his oaths, and those who were with him at table, he would not say 'No' to her.
Mark 10:22
But his face became sad at the saying, and he went away sorrowing: for he was one who had much property.
Luke 18:23
But at these words he became very sad, for he had great wealth.
John 19:12
Hearing this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king goes against Caesar.
John 19:13
So when these words came to Pilate's ear, he took Jesus out, seating himself in the judge's seat in a place named in Hebrew, Gabbatha, or the Stone Floor.
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Job 31:24
If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;
Job 31:25
If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;
Job 31:26
If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,
Job 31:27
A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;
Job 31:28
That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.
Mark 10:23
And Jesus, looking round about, said to his disciples, How hard it is for those who have wealth to come into the kingdom of God!
Mark 10:24
And the disciples were full of wonder at his words. But Jesus said to them again, Children, how hard it is for those who put faith in wealth to come into the kingdom of God!
Luke 4:43
But he said to them, I have to give the good news of the kingdom of God in other towns, because that is why I was sent.
1 Corinthians 1:26
For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:
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Job 36:13
Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.
Ezekiel 13:10
Because, even because they have been guiding my people into error, saying, Peace; when there is no peace; and in the building of a division wall they put whitewash on it:
Ezekiel 13:11
Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an overflowing shower; and you, O ice-drops, will come raining down; and it will be broken in two by the storm-wind.
Ezekiel 13:12
And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?
Ezekiel 13:13
For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it broken in two by a storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an overflowing shower in my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come raining angrily down.
Ezekiel 13:14
So I will let the wall, which you were covering with whitewash, be broken down; I will have it levelled to the earth so that its base is uncovered: it will come down, and destruction will come on you with it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:15
So I will let loose my passion on the wall in full measure, and on those who put whitewash on it; and I will say to you, Where is the wall, and where are those who put whitewash on it?
Ezekiel 13:16
Even the prophets of Israel who say words to Jerusalem, who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace, says the Lord.
Matthew 7:27
And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.
Luke 6:49
But he who gives hearing, without doing, is like a man building a house on the earth without a base for it; and when the force of the river came against it, straight away it came down; and the destruction of that house was great.
1 Corinthians 3:13
Every man's work will be made clear in that day, because it will be tested by fire; and the fire itself will make clear the quality of every man's work.
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Psalms 119:9
BETH How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.
Psalms 119:157
Great is the number of those who are against me; but I have not been turned away from your unchanging word.
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Proverbs 4:13
Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.
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Daniel 3:16
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, answering Nebuchadnezzar the king, said, There is no need for us to give you an answer to this question.
1 Corinthians 7:21
If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.
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Matthew 6:19
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
Matthew 6:20
But make a store for yourselves in heaven, where it will not be turned to dust and where thieves do not come in to take it away:
Matthew 6:21
For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.
Luke 13:24
Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.
Luke 16:9
And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.
Hebrews 12:2
Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
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Matthew 9:20
And a woman, who for twelve years had had a flow of blood, came after him, and put her hand on the edge of his robe:
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Matthew 13:24
And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:
Matthew 13:36
Then he went away from the people, and went into the house; and his disciples came to him, saying, Make clear to us the story of the evil plants in the field.
Matthew 13:37
And he made answer and said, He who puts the good seed in the earth is the Son of man;
Matthew 13:38
And the field is the world; and the good seed is the sons of the kingdom; and the evil seeds are the sons of the Evil One;
Matthew 13:39
And he who put them in the earth is Satan; and the getting in of the grain is the end of the world; and those who get it in are the angels.
Matthew 13:40
As then the evil plants are got together and burned with fire, so will it be in the end of the world.
Matthew 13:53
And when Jesus had come to the end of these stories he went away from there.
Matthew 26:26
And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.
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Mark 4:8
And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, coming up and increasing, and giving thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.
Mark 4:20
And these are they who were planted on the good earth; such as give ear to the word, and take it into their hearts, and give fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundred times as much.
Luke 8:15
And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
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Ecclesiastes 4:8
It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
Luke 12:17
And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.
Luke 12:18
And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.
Luke 12:19
And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
Luke 12:21
So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.
Luke 16:13
No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
Hebrews 13:6
So that we say with a good heart, The Lord is my helper; I will have no fear: what is man able to do to me?
Revelation 3:17
For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.
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Mark 13:11
And when you are taken and given up to be judged, do not be troubled about what to say: but whatever is given to you in that hour, say: because it is not you who say it, but the Holy Spirit.
Luke 12:22
And he said to his disciples, For this reason I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about what food you will take, or for your body, how it may be clothed.
Luke 12:23
Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?
Luke 12:25
And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself any taller?
Luke 12:26
If, then, you are not able to do even that which is least, why are you troubled about the rest?
Luke 19:3
Made an attempt to get a view of Jesus, and was not able to do so, because of the people, for he was a small man.
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Matthew 22:5
But they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade:
Luke 14:18
And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.
Luke 14:19
And another said, I have got some cattle, and I am going to make a test of them: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.
Luke 14:20
And another said, I have been married, and so I am not able to come.
Luke 17:31
On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house.
Luke 17:32
Keep in mind Lot's wife.
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John 12:39
For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,
John 12:41
(Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.)
John 12:43
For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.
Romans 3:11
Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;
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Jeremiah 4:4
Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.
John 15:1
I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.
John 15:8
Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.
James 2:18
But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works.
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John 16:33
I have said all these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble: but take heart! I have overcome the world.
Romans 10:10
For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation.
Romans 13:11
See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
Ephesians 5:11
And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
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John 19:14
(It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, There is your King!
John 19:15
Then they gave a loud cry, Away with him! away with him! to the cross! Pilate said to them, Am I to put your King to death on the cross? The chief priests said in answer, We have no king but Caesar.
John 19:16
So then he gave him up to them to be put to death on the cross. And they took Jesus away;
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Romans 1:19
Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.
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Ecclesiastes 3:11
He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.
Romans 1:20
For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
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Isaiah 63:17
O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
Matthew 13:15
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
John 5:44
How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
John 8:37
I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.
John 8:43
Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.
John 8:45
But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me.
John 8:46
Which of you is able truly to say that I am a sinner? If I say what is true, why have you no belief in me?
John 8:47
He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.
John 12:40
He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.
John 12:42
However, a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the Synagogue:
Romans 1:28
And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
1 Corinthians 2:14
For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.
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Galatians 6:7
Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
Galatians 6:8
Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.
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Psalms 119:36
Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.
Luke 20:34
And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world are married and have wives;
Romans 8:6
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:
Romans 8:14
And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 12:2
And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
1 Corinthians 7:31
And for those who make use of the world, not to be using it fully; for this world's way of life will quickly come to an end.
Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins, so that he might make us free from this present evil world, after the purpose of our God and Father:
Ephesians 4:22
That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
Ephesians 5:5
Being certain of this, that no man who gives way to the passions of the flesh, no unclean person, or one who has desire for the property of others, or who gives worship to images, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Colossians 3:2
Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.
Colossians 3:5
Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;
1 John 2:17
And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever.
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Colossians 4:14
Luke, our well-loved medical friend, and Demas, send you their love.
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Job 8:17
His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.
Micah 7:4
The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.
Matthew 13:5
And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep:
Matthew 24:10
And numbers of people will be turned from the right way, and will give one another up and have hate for one another.
John 6:66
Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.
Acts 20:29
I am conscious that after I am gone, evil wolves will come in among you, doing damage to the flock;
1 Thessalonians 3:5
For this reason, when I was no longer able to keep quiet, I sent to get news of your faith, fearing that you might be tested by the Evil One and that our work might come to nothing.
1 Timothy 4:1
But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,
1 Timothy 5:15
For even now some are turned away to Satan.
2 Timothy 3:4
False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;
2 Peter 2:2
And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.
Jude 1:12
These men are unseen rocks at your love-feasts, when they take part in them with you, keepers of sheep who without fear take the food of the sheep; clouds without water rushing before the wind, wasted trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots,
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Psalms 17:14
With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.
Psalms 52:7
See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.
Proverbs 23:5
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 5:11
When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
Ecclesiastes 5:14
And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
Luke 12:16
And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:
1 Timothy 6:6
But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:
1 Timothy 6:7
For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;
1 Timothy 6:8
But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.
Revelation 18:14
And the fruit of your soul's desire has gone from you, and all things delicate and shining have come to an end and will never again be seen.
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Psalms 101:3
I will not put any evil thing before my eyes; I am against all turning to one side; I will not have it near me.
Ezekiel 18:24
But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.
Hebrews 6:7
For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:
Hebrews 10:26
For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,
Hebrews 10:27
But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.
Hebrews 10:28
A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two or three witnesses:
Hebrews 10:29
But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?
Hebrews 10:30
For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people.
Hebrews 10:31
We may well go in fear of falling into the hands of the living God.
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.
2 Peter 2:21
For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.
2 Peter 2:22
They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.
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Matthew 24:26
If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.
Mark 4:17
And they have no root in themselves, but go on for a time; then, when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, they quickly become full of doubts.
Acts 26:11
And I gave them punishment frequently, in all the Synagogues, forcing them to say things against God; and burning with passion against them, I went after them even into far-away towns.
2 Timothy 3:7
Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.
2 Peter 2:13
For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;
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2 John 1:8
Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.
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