Believing Lies

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them. — read the full passage →

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue. — read the full passage →

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, — read the full passage →

Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter. — read the full passage →

Now this I say that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me, says Yahweh.

“Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings out a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. — read the full passage →

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we. — read the full passage →

An evildoer heeds wicked lips. A liar gives ear to a mischievous tongue.

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. — read the full passage →

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth? — read the full passage →

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah. — read the full passage →

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds, — read the full passage →

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good. — read the full passage →

He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil— — read the full passage →

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, you scoffers, that rule this people in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, — read the full passage →

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can’t understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent! — read the full passage →

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail. — read the full passage →

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

He sends out his commandment to the earth. His word runs very swiftly.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.

This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; — read the full passage →

Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. — read the full passage →

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power. His understanding is infinite.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. — read the full passage →

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God. — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God? — read the full passage →

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, — read the full passage →

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned. — read the full passage →

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down, and wrote on the ground with his finger.

“For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old. — read the full passage →

For the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my redeemed has come.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory is risen on you. — read the full passage →

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren’t you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

“I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;

Who is like me? Who will call, and will declare it, and set it in order for me, since I established the ancient people? Let them declare the things that are coming, and that will happen.

The voice of one saying, “Cry!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

Pause and wonder! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. — read the full passage →

I, Yahweh, am its keeper. I will water it every moment. Lest anyone damage it, I will keep it night and day. — read the full passage →

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. — read the full passage →

If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night”; — read the full passage →

If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!

I will bow down toward your holy temple, and give thanks to your Name for your loving kindness and for your truth; for you have exalted your Name and your Word above all.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you; — read the full passage →

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

and there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you, and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. — read the full passage →

Jesus, standing up, saw her and said, “Woman, where are your accusers? Did no one condemn you?”

The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” — read the full passage →

Thus says Yahweh: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;

Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don’t I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh.

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax. — read the full passage →

The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. — read the full passage →

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.