Bible verses about "unbelievers" | Goodspeed

¹⁵ "If you really love me, you will observe my commands.

¹⁶ For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

³⁰ Jesus replied, "A man was on his way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers, and they stripped him and beat him and went off leaving him half dead. ³¹ Now a priest happened to be going that way, and when he saw him, he went by on the other side of the road. ³² And a Levite also came to the place, and when he saw him, he went by on the other side. ³³ But a Samaritan who was traveling that way came upon him, and when he saw him he pitied him, ³⁴ and he went up to him and dressed his wounds with oil and wine and bound them up. And he put him on his own mule and brought him to an inn and took care of him. ³⁵ The next day he took out a dollar and gave it to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him, and whatever more you spend I will refund to you on my way back.' ³⁶ Which of these three do you think proved himself a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers' hands?" ³⁷ He said, "The man who took pity on him." Jesus said to him, "Go and do so yourself!"

²³ For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.

²⁰ Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature—his eternal power and divine character—have been clearly perceptible through what he has made. So they have no excuse,

⁴ for they are God's agents to do you good. But if you do wrong you may well be afraid, for they do not carry swords for nothing. They are God's servants, to execute his wrath upon wrongdoers.

¹ Now I want to remind you, brothers, of the form in which I presented to you the good news I brought, which you accepted and have stood by, ² and through which you are to be saved, if you hold on, unless your faith has been all for nothing. ³ For I passed on to you, as of first importance, the account I had received, that Christ died for our sins, as the Scriptures foretold, ⁴ that he was buried, that on the third day he was raised from the dead, as the Scriptures foretold, ⁵ and that he was seen by Cephas, and then by the Twelve. ⁶ After that he was seen by more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, although some of them have fallen asleep. ⁷ Then he was seen by James, then by all the apostles, ⁸ and finally he was seen by me also, as though I were born at the wrong time. ⁹ For I am the least important of the apostles, and am not fit to be called an apostle, because I once persecuted God's church. ¹⁰ But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me. ¹¹ But whether it was I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed. ¹² Now if what we preach about Christ is that he was raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead? ¹³ If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ was not raised, ¹⁴ and if Christ was not raised, there is nothing in our message; there is nothing in our faith either, ¹⁵ and we are found guilty of misrepresenting God, for we have testified that he raised Christ, when he did not do it, if it is true that the dead are never raised. ¹⁶ For if the dead are never raised, Christ was not raised; ¹⁷ and if Christ was not raised, your faith is a delusion; you are still under the control of your sins. ¹⁸ Yes, and those who have fallen asleep in trust in Christ have perished. ¹⁹ If we have centered our hopes on Christ in this life, and that is all, we are the most pitiable people in the world. ²⁰ But the truth is, Christ was raised from the dead, the first to be raised of those who have fallen asleep. ²¹ For since it was through a man that we have death, it is through a man also that we have the raising of the dead. ²² For just as because of their relation to Adam all men die, so because of their relation to Christ they will all be brought to life again. ²³ But each in his own turn; Christ first, and then at Christ's coming those who belong to him. ²⁴ After that will come the end, when he will turn over the kingdom to God his Father, bringing to an end all other government, authority, and power, ²⁵ for he must retain the kingdom until he puts all his enemies under his feet. ²⁶ The last enemy to be overthrown will be death, ²⁷ for everything is to be reduced to subjection and put under Christ's feet. But when it says that everything is subject to him, he is evidently excepted who reduced it all to subjection to him. ²⁸ And when everything is reduced to subjection to him, then the Son himself will also become subject to him who has reduced everything to subjection to him, so that God may be everything to everyone. ²⁹ Otherwise, what do people mean by having themselves baptized on behalf of their dead? If the dead do not rise at all, why do they have themselves baptized on their behalf? ³⁰ Why do we ourselves run such risks every hour? ³¹ By the very pride I take in you, brothers, through our union with Christ Jesus our Lord, I face death every day. ³² From the human point of view, what good is it to me that I have fought wild animals here in Ephesus? If the dead do not rise at all, "Let us eat and drink, for we will be dead tomorrow!" ³³ Do not be misled. Bad company ruins character. ³⁴ Return to your sober sense as you ought, and stop sinning, for some of you are utterly ignorant about God. To your shame I say so. ³⁵ But someone will say, "How can the dead rise? What kind of a body will they have when they come back?" ³⁶ You foolish man, the very seed you sow never comes to life without dying first; ³⁷ and when you sow it, it has not the form it is going to have, but is a naked kernel, perhaps of wheat or something else; ³⁸ and God gives it just such a form as he pleases, so that each kind of seed has a form of its own. ³⁹ Flesh is not all alike; men have one kind, animals another, birds another, and fish another. ⁴⁰ There are heavenly bodies, and there are earthly bodies, but the beauty of the heavenly bodies is of one kind, and the beauty of the earthly bodies is of another. ⁴¹ The sun has one kind of beauty, and the moon another, and the stars another; why, one star differs from another in beauty. ⁴² It is so with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in decay, it is raised free from decay. ⁴³ It is sown in humiliation, it is raised in splendor. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in strength. ⁴⁴ It is a physical body that is sown, it is a spiritual body that is raised. If there is a physical body, there is a spiritual body also. ⁴⁵ This is also what the Scripture says: "The first man Adam became a living creature." The last Adam has become a life-giving Spirit. ⁴⁶ It is not the spiritual that comes first, but the physical, and then the spiritual. ⁴⁷ The first man is of the dust of the earth; the second man is from heaven. ⁴⁸ Those who are of the earth are like him who was of the earth, and those who are of heaven are like him who is from heaven, ⁴⁹ and as we have been like the man of the earth, let us also try to be like the man from heaven. ⁵⁰ But I can tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot share in the Kingdom of God, and decay will not share in what is imperishable. ⁵¹ I will tell you a secret. We shall not all fall asleep, but we shall all be changed, ⁵² in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised free from decay, and we shall be changed. ⁵³ For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality. ⁵⁴ And when this mortal nature puts on immortality, then what the Scripture says will come true—"Death has been triumphantly destroyed. ⁵⁵ Where, Death, is your victory? Where, Death, is your sting?" ⁵⁶ Sin is the sting of death, and it is the Law that gives sin its power. ⁵⁷ But thank God! He gives us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵⁸ So my dear brothers, be firm and unmoved, and always devote yourselves to the Lord's work, for you know that through the Lord your labor is not thrown away.

¹ About the collection for God's people, I want you to do as I told the churches of Galatia to do. ² On the first of every week each of you is to put aside and store up whatever he gains, so that money will not have to be collected after I come. ³ When I come I will send whatever persons you authorize with credentials, to carry your gift to Jerusalem. ⁴ And if it seems worth while for me to go myself, they can go with me. ⁵ I will come to you after passing through Macedonia, for I am going through Macedonia, ⁶ and I will probably stay some time with you, or even pass the winter, so that you may start me off for wherever I may be going. ⁷ For I do not want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you if the Lord permits it. ⁸ But I shall stay in Ephesus until the Harvest Festival, ⁹ for I have a great and promising opportunity here, as well as many opponents. ¹⁰ If Timothy reaches you, put him at his ease among you, for he is devoted to the Lord's work, just as I am. ¹¹ So no one is to slight him. But see him off cordially when he comes back to me, for I am expecting him with the other brothers. ¹² As for our brother Apollos, I have often urged him to visit you with the other brothers, and he is quite unwilling to come now, but he will come when he has a good opportunity. ¹³ Be on the watch. Stand firm in your faith. Act like men. Show yourselves strong. ¹⁴ Do everything with love. ¹⁵ Now I urge you, brothers—you know that the family of Stephanas was the first to be converted in Greece, and that they have devoted themselves to the service of God's people— ¹⁶ I want you to enlist under such leaders, and under anyone who joins with you and works hard. ¹⁷ And I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have come here, for they have made up for your absence. ¹⁸ They have cheered my heart, and yours too. You should appreciate such men. ¹⁹ The churches of Asia wish to be remembered to you. Aquila and Prisca, with the congregation that meets at their house, send you their special Christian greetings. ²⁰ All the brothers wish to be remembered to you. Greet one another with a sacred kiss. ²¹ This farewell I, Paul, add in my own hand. ²² A curse upon anyone who has no love for the Lord. Lord, come quickly! ²³ The blessing of the Lord Jesus be with you! ²⁴ My love be with you all through Christ Jesus.

¹² See to it, my brothers, that no one of you has a wicked, unbelieving heart, that turns away from the ever-living God,

⁸ But the cowardly, unfaithful, and polluted—murderers, immoral people, those who practice magic or idolatry, and all liars will find themselves in the burning lake of fire and brimstone. This is the second death."

⁴ In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep the light of the good news of the glorious Christ, the likeness of God, from dawning upon them.

⁸ Whoever fails to provide for his own relatives, and particularly for members of his own family, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

¹⁴ Do not get into close and incongruous relations with unbelievers. What partnership can uprightness have with iniquity, or what can light have to do with darkness?

⁹ I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people— ¹⁰ not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether. ¹¹ What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who is supposed to be a Christian brother, and yet is immoral or greedy or idolatrous or abusive or drunken or grasping—with such a person you must not even eat. ¹² For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not your part to judge those who are inside the church, ¹³ and God's, to judge those who are outside? You must drive the wrongdoer out from among you.

¹⁸ They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart,

¹⁴ Do not get into close and incongruous relations with unbelievers. What partnership can uprightness have with iniquity, or what can light have to do with darkness? ¹⁵ How can Christ agree with Belial? Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ What bargain can a temple of God make with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, And I will be their God and they will be my people." ¹⁷ Therefore, "Come out from them, And separate from them, says the Lord, And touch nothing that is unclean. Then I will welcome you, ¹⁸ I will become a father to you, And you shall become my sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty."