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Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.
Deuteronomy Chapter 29: Verse 18
He did evil because he had not set his heart on seeking the LORD.
2 Chronicles Chapter 12: Verse 14
Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
Job Chapter 14: Verse 4
Is not your wickedness great? Are not your sins endless?
Job Chapter 22: Verse 5
For the sake of your name, O LORD, forgive my iniquity, though it is great.
Psalms Chapter 25: Verse 11
For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known my ways."
Psalms Chapter 95: Verse 10
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
Proverbs Chapter 4: Verse 23
He who plots evil will be known as a schemer.
The schemes of folly are sin, and men detest a mocker.
Proverbs Chapter 24: Verses 8 - 9
Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. And do not protest to the temple messenger, "My vow was a mistake." Why should God be angry at what you say and destroy the work of your hands?
Ecclesiastes Chapter 5: Verse 6
From the sole of your foot to the top of your head there is no soundness, only wounds and welts and open sores, not cleansed or bandaged or soothed with oil.
Isaiah Chapter 1: Verse 6
He feeds on ashes, a deluded heart misleads him; he cannot save himself, or say, "Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?"
Isaiah Chapter 44: Verse 20
But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
Jeremiah Chapter 7: Verse 24
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Jeremiah Chapter 17: Verse 9
because they rejected my laws and did not follow my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths. For their hearts were devoted to their idols.
Ezekiel Chapter 20: Verse 16
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Matthew Chapter 5: Verse 28
And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
Matthew Chapter 12: Verse 31
"Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him.
Matthew Chapter 12: Verses 33 - 35
Jesus told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.
But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.
Matthew Chapter 13: Verses 24 - 25
The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,
and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.
Matthew Chapter 13: Verses 38 - 39
"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!"
Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'
But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,'
he is not to 'honor his father ' with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
" 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.' "
Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand.
What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.' "
Then the disciples came to him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?"
He replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."
Peter said, "Explain the parable to us."
"Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them.
"Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.'
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.' "
Matthew Chapter 15: Verses 2 - 20
Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
John Chapter 8: Verse 34
You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John Chapter 8: Verse 44
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned,
for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.
Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!
Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man's sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.
For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
Consequently, just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all men, so also the result of one act of righteousness was justification that brings life for all men.
For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous.
The law was added so that the trespass might increase. But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans Chapter 5: Verses 12 - 21
What shall we say, then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed I would not have known what sin was except through the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, "Do not covet."
Romans Chapter 7: Verse 7
Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful.
Romans Chapter 7: Verse 13
But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
Romans Chapter 14: Verse 23
Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?
1 Corinthians Chapter 5: Verse 6
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.
Ephesians Chapter 2: Verses 1 - 2
But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
Hebrews Chapter 3: Verse 13
See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.
Hebrews Chapter 12: Verse 15
but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed.
Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
James Chapter 1: Verses 14 - 15
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
James Chapter 2: Verses 10 - 11
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?
You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
James Chapter 4: Verses 1 - 3
Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
James Chapter 4: Verse 17
Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
2 Peter Chapter 1: Verse 4
Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.
1 John Chapter 3: Verse 4
No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
1 John Chapter 3: Verse 6
He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.
No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.Love one another
1 John Chapter 3: Verses 8 - 10
Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
1 John Chapter 3: Verse 15
All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
1 John Chapter 5: Verse 17
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