Now we pray to God that you do no wrong; not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear unapproved. The cricket shall possess all your trees and the produce of your ground. For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power. If a man is righteous and does what is just and right And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.. Did not like.--There is a play upon words here with "reprobate" in the clause following which cannot be retained in English. Honor the emperor. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. Because of space limitations, the guide is not intended to be comprehensive. The people God is talking about are homosexuals and God . Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. Avoid such people. The Bible is not nearly as difficult as people make it out to be. O Amen. So the word of the Lord to them will be,Order on order, order on order,Line on line, line on line,A little here, a little there,That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive. Now we pray to God that you do no wrong; not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear unapproved. The Lord will smite you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive. TopicalBible For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in youunless indeed you fail the test? Copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls. E Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and yearn for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do. Once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, Lord, open up to us! then He will answer and say to you, I do not know where you are from. Then you will begin to say, We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets;read more.and He will say, I tell you, I do not know where you are from; depart from Me, all you evildoers. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves being thrown out. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 3. Romans 12:16 chapter context similar meaning copy save Be of the same mind one toward another. Because I called and you refused,I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention; And you neglected all my counselAnd did not want my reproof; I will also laugh at your calamity;I will mock when your dread comes,read more.When your dread comes like a stormAnd your calamity comes like a whirlwind,When distress and anguish come upon you. Ecclesiasticus 37:14 KJV, "Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:" 1 Peter 3:8 KJV, "A shamefaced and faithful woman is a double grace, and her continent mind cannot be valued." Test yourselves. On the other hand, ch. For many will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ, and they will lead many astray. "an unfit mind," i.e. H A people whom you do not know shall eat up the produce of your ground and all your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and crushed continually. Killing of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die., Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you. and you will grope at noon, as the blind man gropes in darkness, and you will not prosper in your ways; but you shall only be oppressed and robbed continually, with none to save you. So they are without excuse. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish. To retain God in their knowledge.--The word for knowledge here means "exact," "advanced," "thorough knowledge." For we know Him who said, Vengeance is Mine, I will repay. And again, The Lord will judge His people. It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. Then the Lord said to me, Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go! For Jesus has been counted worthy of more glory than Mosesas much more glory as the builder of a house has more honor than the house itself. Therefore I was angry with this generation, And said, They always go astray in their heart. Unless otherwise indicated, all content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. F For they have brought evil on themselves. Moreover, the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. For by it the people of old received their commendation. Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the, Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the, Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the. For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.read more.For ground that drinks the rain which often falls on it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. And Peter said to them, Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. Jesus answered him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! The conscience is the God-given moral consciousness within each of us ( Romans 2:15 ). What then? T But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. And such were some of you. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. In the morning you shall say, Would that it were evening! And at evening you shall say, Would that it were morning! because of the dread of your heart which you dread, and for the sight of your eyes which you will see. * God may or may not exist. But My people did not listen to My voice. I 2 Corinthians 13:5-7 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. It is, after all, uncertain; nor does it follow that the Greek paronomasia can be reproduced in English. But we pray to God that you may not do wrongnot that we may appear to have met the test, but that you may do what is right, though we may seem to have failed. As your fathers did, so do you. You shall have sons and daughters but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity. N Geocoding The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower. To come down, come to; To be unfit, proper. And A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. In the first of the above passages the word obviously means "rejected" (in the Authorized Version a castaway), with reference to the comparison of a competitor in athletic contests being proved unworthy of the prize - a sense cognate to the common one of the same adjective as applied to spurious metals, rejected or worthless after being tested. There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Scripture constantly talks about the link between believers and truth. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.. Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you. The entire vision will be to you like the words of a sealed book, which when they give it to the one who is literate, saying, Please read this, he will say, I cannot, for it is sealed., Then the book will be given to the one who is illiterate, saying, Please read this. And he will say, I cannot read.. Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.read more.Cursed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock. The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. Love the brotherhood. For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears. - Sort By Book Order. How can we know the way? And he said, This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father., The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.. He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you. These went on ahead and were waiting for us at Troas, You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? Similar catalogues of sins are given in other of St. Paul's Epistles, as, for example, 2 Cor. a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young. Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. OpenBible.info You believe that God is one; you do well. Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the Lord your God. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.. Lamentations 3:21 KJV, "I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel." 2 Maccabees 11:37 KJV, "He giveth his mind to make furrows; and is diligent to give the kine fodder." Amen. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. "As they reprobated the knowledge of God, so He gave them up to a reprobate mind." And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says,You will keep on hearing, but will not understand;You will keep on seeing, but will not perceive; Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. A primary meaning of reprobate is "rejected." Webster's 1828 dictionary defines it as "not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected." This is also a Bible definition found in the verse you quoted: Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith. Probably from the base of ginosko; the intellect, i.e. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith. While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled. It is another way of describing a person who is set on satisfying the flesh and not on the Spirit of God. The passages from 2 Timothy and Titus may in themselves admit the sense of undiscerning, but the passive one is more probable in view of the common usage of the word. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org, for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the, But it shall come about, if you do not obey the. But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, and its end is to be burned. Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! And you know the way to where I am going. Thomas said to him, Lord, we do not know where you are going. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted. Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com. But I trust that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test. Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! In my Father's house are many rooms. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. C And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it? And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months. According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. What agreement has the temple of God with idols? Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; CSB And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right. The phrase "reprobate mind" is found in Romans 1:28 in reference to those whom God has rejected as godless and wicked. Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.read more.How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? B Just as the hide of an animal . As for you, do not pray for this people, and do not lift up cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with Me; for I do not hear you. Ecclesiasticus 27:16 KJV, "But wine drunken with excess maketh bitterness of the mind, with brawling and quarrelling." There is sin that leads to death; I do not say that one should pray for that. Be delayed and wait,Blind yourselves and be blind;They become drunk, but not with wine,They stagger, but not with strong drink. In verses 26-27, He says four times that man is created in the image of God. For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false. Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Jeremiah 6:30 KJV, "Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith." Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming; that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,read more.and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should make request for this. It shall come about that as the Lord delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the Lord will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it. It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the, Then you shall eat the offspring of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters whom the. What makes someoneRead More Fornication.--This word is wanting in the best MSS. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. And all drank the same spiritual drink. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. 2 Timothy 3:8 KJV, "Be of the same mind one toward another. And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when called by God, just as Aaron was. For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.
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