186, Things Men Can Do

(11 to 13 out of 186)

11)

Become worse off after knowing God and then backsliding

Jeremiah 7:26  

But they did not listen to me or pay attention. They were stiff-necked and did more evil than their forefathers.’

Matthew 12:43-45  

43 “When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it.

44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order.

45 Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.”

John 5:14  

Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.”

12)

Turn from God and be lost

Galatians 1:6-8  

6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—

7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.

8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!

Galatians 5:4  

You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

2 Peter 2:20-22  

20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.

21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.

22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

13)

Be separated from God by going back into sin

Isaiah 59:2  

But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.