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2 Timothy 2 25
in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
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2 Timothy 4 3-2 Timothy 4 4
For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.
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1 Corinthians 3 1-1 Corinthians 3 4
Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?For when one says,“ I follow Paul,” and another,“ I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?
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Ephesians 4:14
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
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Matthew 13:11
He answered them,“ To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
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1 Timothy 2 4
who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.
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Hebrews 5:11
About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
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Isaiah 30:10-11
who tell the seers,“ Don’t see!” and the prophets,“ Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
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Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
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John 5:44
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
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John 3:20-21
For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
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Deuteronomy 29:4
But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
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Ezekiel 14:4-10
Therefore speak to them, and tell them,‘ The Lord Yahweh says:“ Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.”’“ Therefore tell the house of Israel,‘ The Lord Yahweh says:“ Return, and turn yourselves from your idols! Turn away your faces from all your abominations.“‘“ For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself.I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.“‘“ If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.They will bear their iniquity. The iniquity of the prophet will be even as the iniquity of him who seeks him;
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John 12:42-43
Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.
