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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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?
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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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