in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you. They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children! Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. They have followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved gain from wrongdoing,
For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
By their evil they make the king glad, and the princes by their treachery.
The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,
You love evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right. Selah You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.
But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips? For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers. “You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly.’
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