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For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. — read the full passage →

Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. — read the full passage →

And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, — read the full passage →

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

And he said, A certain man had two sons: — read the full passage →

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, — read the full passage →

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; — read the full passage →

If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →

For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.

Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. — read the full passage →

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. — read the full passage →

And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: — read the full passage →

And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. — read the full passage →

For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. — read the full passage →

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: — read the full passage →

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. — read the full passage →