BE NOT DECEIVED, GOD IS NOT MOCKED
(Num. 32:23).
Be sure of this, your sin will find you out.
(Luke 8:17)
Nothing is made secret, that will not be disclosed openly.
(Gal 6:6-8)
Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
For he that soweth to his flesh
shall of the flesh reap corruption;
but he that soweth to the Spirit
shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
(2 Tim 3:1-5 TLB)
You may as well know this too,
that in the last days it is going to be very difficult to be a Christian.
For people will love only themselves and their money;
they will be proud and boastful, sneering at God,
disobedient to their parents, ungrateful to them, and thoroughly bad.
They will be hardheaded and never give in to others;
they will be constant liars and troublemakers
and will think nothing of immorality.
They will be rough and cruel,
and sneer at those who try to be good.
They will betray their friends;
they will be hotheaded, puffed up with pride,
and prefer good times to worshipping God.
They will go to church, yes,
but they won't really believe anything they hear.
Don't be taken in by people like that.
(Romans 2:4-16 TLB)
Don't you realize how patient God is being with you?
Or don't you care?
Can't you see that he has been waiting all this time without punishing you,
to give you time to turn from your sin?
His kindness is meant to lead you to repentance.
But no, you won't listen;
and so you are saving up terrible punishment for yourselves
because of your stubbornness in refusing to turn from your sin;
for there is going to come a day of wrath
when God will be the just Judge of all the world.
He will give each one whatever his deeds deserve.
He will give eternal life to those who patiently do the will of God,
seeking for the unseen glory and honor and eternal life that he offers.
But he will terribly punish those who fight against the truth of God
and walk in evil ways--
God's anger will be poured out upon them.
There will be sorrow and suffering for Jews and Gentiles alike
who keep on sinning.
But there will be glory and honor and peace from God
for all who obey him,
whether they are Jews or Gentiles.
For God treats everyone the same.
He will punish sin wherever it is found.
He will punish the heathen when they sin,
even though they never had God's written laws,
for down in their hearts they know right from wrong.
God's laws are written within them;
their own conscience accuses them, or sometimes excuses them.
And God will punish the Jews for sinning
because they have his written laws but don't obey them.
They know what is right but don't do it.
After all, salvation is not given to those who know what to do,
unless they do it.
The day will surely come when at God's command
Jesus Christ will judge the secret lives of everyone,
their inmost thoughts and motives;
this is all part of God's great plan, which I proclaim.
1 John 1:5-10 (KJV)
This then is the message which we have heard of him,
and declare unto you,
that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
{6} If we say that we have fellowship with him,
and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
{7} But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light,
we have fellowship one with another,
and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
{8} If we say that we have no sin,
we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
{9} If we confess our sins,
he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
{10} If we say that we have not sinned,
we make him a liar,
and his word is not in us.
1 John 2:1-6 (KJV)
My little children,
these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.
And if any man sin,
we have an advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous:
{2} And he is the propitiation{appeasement} for our sins:
and not for ours only,
but also for the sins of the whole world.
{3} And hereby we do know that we know him,
if we keep his commandments.
{4} He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments,
is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
{5} But whoso keepeth his word,
in him verily is the love of God perfected:
hereby know we that we are in him.
{6} He that saith he abideth in him
ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
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