Hebrews 10:26-29
10:26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us,
10:27 but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume God’s enemies.
10:28 Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
10:29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 12:15-17
12:15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like
a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.
12:16 And see to it that no one becomes
an immoral or godless person like Esau, who
sold his own birthright for a single meal.
12:17 For you know that
later when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance, although he sought the blessing
with tears.
Matthew 5:13
Salt and Light
5:13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled on by people.
Matthew 12:31-32
12:31 For this reason I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy,
but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
12:32 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.
Matthew 12:45
12:45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so
the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!”
Luke 11:24-26
Response to Jesus’ Work
11:24 “When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but not finding any. Then it says, ‘I will return to the home I left.’
11:25 When it returns, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.
11:26 Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first.”
John 15:6
15:6 If anyone does not remain
in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire,
and are burned up.
John 15:2
15:2 He takes away
every branch that does not bear
fruit in me. He
prunes
every branch that bears
fruit so that it will bear more fruit.
John 2:25
2:25 He did not need anyone to testify about man,
for he knew what was in man.
John 4:14
4:14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again,
but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain
of water springing up
to eternal life.”
John 4:2
4:2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),
John 2:20-22
2:20 Then the Jewish leaders
said to him, “This temple has been under construction
for forty-six years,
and are you going to raise it up in three days?”
2:21 But Jesus
was speaking about the temple of his body.
2:22 So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture
and the saying
that Jesus had spoken.
John 2:1
Turning Water into Wine
2:1 Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
John 5:16
Responding to Jewish Leaders
5:16 Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.