Ecclesiastes 9:3
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3 It seems so wrong that everyone under the sun suffers the same fate. Already twisted by evil, people choose their own mad course, for they have no hope. There is nothing ahead but death anyway.
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Ecclesiastes 9:3
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3 This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all.(A) The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live,(B) and afterward they join the dead.(C)
Jeremiah 17:9
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9 “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things,
and desperately wicked.
Who really knows how bad it is?
Jeremiah 17:9
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9 The heart(A) is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?
Ecclesiastes 8:11
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11 When a crime is not punished quickly, people feel it is safe to do wrong.
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Ecclesiastes 8:11
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11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong.
Ecclesiastes 1:17
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17 So I set out to learn everything from wisdom to madness and folly. But I learned firsthand that pursuing all this is like chasing the wind.
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Ecclesiastes 1:17
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17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom,(A) and also of madness and folly,(B) but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
Titus 3:3
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3 Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled and became slaves to many lusts and pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy, and we hated each other.
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Titus 3:3
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3 At one time(A) we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
Romans 1:29-31
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29 Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. 30 They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. 31 They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy.
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Romans 1:29-31
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29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,(A) 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;(B) 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love,(C) no mercy.
2 Peter 2:16
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16 But Balaam was stopped from his mad course when his donkey rebuked him with a human voice.
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2 Peter 2:16
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16 But he was rebuked for his wrongdoing by a donkey—an animal without speech—who spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.(A)
Acts 26:24
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24 Suddenly, Festus shouted, “Paul, you are insane. Too much study has made you crazy!”
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Acts 26:24
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24 At this point Festus interrupted Paul’s defense. “You are out of your mind,(A) Paul!” he shouted. “Your great learning(B) is driving you insane.”
Acts 12:23
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23 Instantly, an angel of the Lord struck Herod with a sickness, because he accepted the people’s worship instead of giving the glory to God. So he was consumed with worms and died.
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Acts 12:23
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23 Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel(A) of the Lord struck him down,(B) and he was eaten by worms and died.
Luke 15:17
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17 “When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger!
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Luke 15:17
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17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!
Luke 6:11
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11 At this, the enemies of Jesus were wild with rage and began to discuss what to do with him.
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Luke 6:11
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11 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were furious(A) and began to discuss with one another what they might do to Jesus.
Mark 7:21-23
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21 For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness. 23 All these vile things come from within; they are what defile you.”
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Mark 7:21-23
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21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed,(A) malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Ecclesiastes 12:7
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7 For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
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Ecclesiastes 12:7
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