Bible verses about "perversity" | NSB

³¹ They said: »Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your house.«

¹ Put away all badness and all deception, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil talk. ² Like newborn infants, long for the spiritual milk that is without deception to help you grow to salvation. ³ You have tasted that the Lord is kind. ⁴ You came to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and precious with God. ⁵ You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ The scriptures say: »I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, chosen and precious (Isaiah 28:16). He who believes in him will not be disappointed (shamed).« ⁷ This precious value is for those who believe. But for the unbeliever: »The stone that the builders rejected became the cornerstone.« ⁸ It is a stone that people stumble over, and a large rock that people find offensive. They stumble because they are disobedient to the word. To this end they were appointed. ⁹ You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God’s own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. ¹⁰ In time past you were no people, but now you are the people of God. You had not then received, but now have received mercy (compassion) (divine kindness). ¹¹ Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you. ¹² Maintain fine behavior among the nations. That way when they speak badly about you, they may see your good works and glorify God in the day of visitation (inspection). ¹³ Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it is to the king, ¹⁴ or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do good. ¹⁵ It is God’s will that you do the right things and that this will silence the ignorance of foolish men. ¹⁶ Be free, and yet do not use your freedom for a covering for evil, but as servants of God. ¹⁷ Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Reverence and respect God. Honor the king. ¹⁸ Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle master but also to the hard to please. ¹⁹ For this is to your credit to suffer wrongfully and endure grief because of your conscience toward God. ²⁰ What value is there when you sin, and are buffeted for it, you take it patiently? But if, when you do well and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. ²¹ For this you were called because Christ also suffered for you. He left you an example (a copy for imitation) (a model) that you should follow in his steps. ²² He committed no sin and deception was not found in him. ²³ When he was reviled (insulted), he did not revile in return. When he suffered he did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judges righteously. ²⁴ He bore our sins in his body upon the stake, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed because of his wounds (stripes). ²⁵ For you were straying like sheep. But now you have returned to your shepherd and overseer.

²⁶ If we continue to (practice) (deliberately persist in) sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins. ²⁷ But there remains a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fiery indignation, which will devour God’s enemies.

² We all stumble in many things. If any do not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able to restrain (control) the whole body.

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

¹ My little children, I write you these things that you may not sin. If any man sin, we have an Advocate (intercessor) (comforter) (helper) with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous! ² He is the propitiation (Greek: hilasmos: atonement, compensation) for our sins. Not for ours only, but also for the whole world. ³ We know that we know him, when we obey his commandments. ⁴ He who says: I know him, and does not obey his commandments is a liar! The truth is not in him. ⁵ Whoever obeys his Word; the love of God is made perfect (complete) (mature) in him. By this we know that we are in union with him. ⁶ He that says he lives in union with him should walk as he walked. ⁷ Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment you had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word that you heard. ⁸ Then again, I do write a new commandment to you. This is true in him and in you. The darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines. ⁹ He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in the darkness! ¹⁰ He who loves his brother lives in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling (offence) in him. ¹¹ But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he goes because the darkness has blinded his eyes. ¹² I write to you, my little children, because your sins are forgiven on account of his name. ¹³ I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father. ¹⁴ I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one. ¹⁵ Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ The entire world, the desire of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of material wealth, is not from the Father, but is from the world. ¹⁷ The world and its desires (lusts) are passing away; but he who does the will of God lives forever. ¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour! You heard that the antichrist is coming. Even now many antichrists have come. That is how we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us. If they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they went out that it made it plain that they all are not of us. ²⁰ You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. ²¹ I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. ²² Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, even he who denies the Father and the Son. ²³ Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. ²⁴ As for you, let that live in you, which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning lives in you, you will also live in the Son, and in the Father. ²⁵ This is the promise he promised us, life eternal. ²⁶ I write you these things concerning those who would lead you astray. ²⁷ The anointing (special endowment of Holy Spirit) you received from Him is a part of you (is with you) and you do not need anyone (any human) to teach you. His anointing taught you concerning all things. It is no lie. It is truth, just as you were taught you live through him. ²⁸ Now, my little children dwell (Greek: meno: stay, dwell, be present) with him. If he shall be made known we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming (presence) (being near). ²⁹ If you know that he is righteous you know that every one who practices righteousness is born of him.

⁴ Certain men crept in unnoticed. They were appointed long ago for this condemnation. These ungodly men turned the grace of our God into loose conduct. They deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

²² »‘Do not have sexual intercourse with a man as with a woman. It is disgusting.

¹⁰ We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether it is good or bad.

¹⁴ Each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his evil desire (lust). He is enticed (allured). ¹⁵ Then evil desires, when conceived, give birth to sin: and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.