Proverbs 4:19
4:19 The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness;
they do not know what causes them to stumble.
John 12:35
12:35 Jesus replied,
“The light is with you for a little while longer.
Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you.
The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
John 12:40
12:40 “He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart,
so that they would not see with their eyes
and understand with their heart,
and turn to me, and I would heal them.”
Romans 3:11-17
3:11 there is no one who understands,
there is no one who seeks God.
3:12 All have turned away,
together they have become worthless;
there is no one who shows kindness, not even one.”
3:13 “Their throats are open graves,
they deceive with their tongues,
the poison of asps is under their lips.”
3:14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
3:15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood,
3:16 ruin and misery are in their paths,
3:17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
Romans 3:2
3:2 Actually, there are many advantages.
First of all,
the Jews
were entrusted with the oracles of God.
Romans 2:10-12
2:10 but
glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, for the Jew first and also the Greek.
2:11 For there is no partiality with God.
2:12 For all who have sinned apart from the law
will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.