Hebrews 10:26
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26 For if we willfully persist in sin after having received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins(A)
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2 Peter 2:20-22
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20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the[a] Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first.(A) 21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was handed on to them.(B) 22 It has happened to them according to the true proverb,
“The dog turns back to its own vomit,”
and,
“The sow is washed only to wallow in the mud.”(C)
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- 2.20 Other ancient authorities read our
Hebrews 6:4-6
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4 For it is impossible to restore again to repentance those who have once been enlightened and have tasted the heavenly gift and have shared in the Holy Spirit(A) 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come(B) 6 and then have fallen away, since they are crucifying again the Son of God to their own harm and are holding him up to contempt.(C)
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John 9:41
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41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.(A)
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Luke 12:47
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47 That slave who knew what his master wanted but did not prepare himself or do what was wanted will receive a severe beating.(A)
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Matthew 12:43-45
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The Return of the Unclean Spirit
43 “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it wanders through waterless regions looking for a resting place, but it finds none. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ When it returns, it finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and live there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So will it be also with this evil generation.”(A)
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James 4:17
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17 Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it commits sin.(A)
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1 John 5:16
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16 If you see your brother or sister committing what is not a deadly sin, you will ask, and God[a] will give life to such a one—to those whose sin is not deadly. There is sin that is deadly; I do not say that you should pray about that.(A)
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Matthew 12:31-32
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31 Therefore I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.(A) 32 Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.(B)
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Numbers 15:28-31
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28 And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for the one who commits an error, when it is unintentional, to make atonement for the person, who then shall be forgiven.(A) 29 For both the native among the Israelites and the alien residing among you, you shall have the same law for anyone who acts in error.(B) 30 But whoever acts high-handedly, whether native-born or an alien, affronts the Lord and shall be cut off from among the people. 31 Because of having despised the word of the Lord and broken his commandment, such a person shall be utterly cut off and bear the guilt.”(C)
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2 Thessalonians 2:10
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10 and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(A)
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John 15:22-24
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22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.(A) 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father also.(B) 24 If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.(C)
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John 13:17
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17 If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.
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1 Timothy 1:13
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13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,(A)
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Psalm 19:12-13
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12 But who can detect one’s own errors?
Clear me from hidden faults.(A)
13 Keep back your servant also from the insolent;[a]
do not let them have dominion over me.
Then I shall be blameless
and innocent of great transgression.(B)
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- 19.13 Or from proud thoughts
Daniel 5:22-23
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22 And you, Belshazzar his son, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this!(A) 23 You have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven! The vessels of his temple have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose power is your very breath and to whom belong all your ways, you have not honored.(B)
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Deuteronomy 17:12
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12 As for anyone who presumes to disobey the priest appointed to minister there to the Lord your God or the judge, that person shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
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Leviticus 4:2
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2 “Speak to the Israelites, saying: When anyone sins unintentionally in any of the Lord’s commandments about things not to be done and does any one of them:(A)
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Leviticus 4:13
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13 “If the whole congregation of Israel errs unintentionally, and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly, and they do any one of the things that by the Lord’s commandments ought not to be done and incur guilt,(A)
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