Proverbs 14:14
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14 The backslider in heart will be (A)filled with his own ways,
But a good man will be satisfied [a]from (B)above.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 14:14 Lit. from above himself
Galatians 6:8
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8 For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap (A)everlasting life.
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Proverbs 12:14
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14 (A)A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth,
(B)And the recompense of a man’s hands will be rendered to him.
Hebrews 3:12
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12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
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Jeremiah 8:5
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5 Why has this people (A)slidden back,
Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding?
(B)They hold fast to deceit,
(C)They refuse to return.
2 Peter 2:20-22
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20 For if, after they (A)have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are (B)again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning. 21 For (C)it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: (D)“A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire.”
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Galatians 6:4
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4 But (A)let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and (B)not in another.
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John 4:14
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14 but (A)whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him (B)will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
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Jeremiah 2:19
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19 Your own wickedness will (A)correct you,
And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing
That you have forsaken the Lord your God,
And the [a]fear of Me is not in you,”
Says the Lord God of hosts.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:19 dread
Zephaniah 1:6
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6 (A)Those who have turned back from following the Lord,
And (B)have not sought the Lord, nor inquired of Him.”
Jeremiah 17:5
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5 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“Cursed is the man who trusts in man
And makes (B)flesh his [a]strength,
Whose heart departs from the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:5 Lit. arm
Proverbs 14:10
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10 The heart knows its own bitterness,
And a stranger does not share its joy.
Proverbs 1:31-32
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31 Therefore (A)they shall eat the fruit of their own way,
And be filled to the full with their own fancies.
32 For the [a]turning away of the simple will slay them,
And the complacency of fools will destroy them;
Footnotes
- Proverbs 1:32 waywardness
2 Corinthians 1:12
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Paul’s Sincerity
12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in [a]simplicity and (A)godly sincerity, (B)not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.
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- 2 Corinthians 1:12 The opposite of duplicity
Hosea 4:16
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16 “For Israel (A)is stubborn
Like a stubborn calf;
Now the Lord will let them forage
Like a lamb in [a]open country.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:16 Lit. a large place
Ezekiel 22:31
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31 Therefore I have (A)poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed (B)their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.
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