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2 Timothy 2 25
Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, (niv)
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2 Timothy 4 3-2 Timothy 4 4
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. (niv)
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1 Corinthians 3 1-1 Corinthians 3 4
Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly— mere infants in Christ.I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans?For when one says,“ I follow Paul,” and another,“ I follow Apollos,” are you not mere human beings? (niv)
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Ephesians 4:14
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. (niv)
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Matthew 13:11
He replied,“ Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. (niv)
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1 Timothy 2 4
who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. (niv)
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Hebrews 5:11
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. (niv)
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Isaiah 30:10-11
They say to the seers,“ See no more visions!” and to the prophets,“ Give us no more visions of what is right! Tell us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.Leave this way, get off this path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!” (niv)
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Proverbs 14:6
The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning. (niv)
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John 5:44
How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? (niv)
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John 3:20-21
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 29:4
But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear. (niv)
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Ezekiel 14:4-10
Therefore speak to them and tell them,‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When any of the Israelites set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet, I the Lord will answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry.I will do this to recapture the hearts of the people of Israel, who have all deserted me for their idols.’“ Therefore say to the people of Israel,‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Repent! Turn from your idols and renounce all your detestable practices!“‘ When any of the Israelites or any foreigner residing in Israel separate themselves from me and set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet to inquire of me, I the Lord will answer them myself.I will set my face against them and make them an example and a byword. I will remove them from my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.“‘ And if the prophet is enticed to utter a prophecy, I the Lord have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.They will bear their guilt— the prophet will be as guilty as the one who consults him. (niv)
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John 12:42-43
Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue;for they loved human praise more than praise from God. (niv)
