Things Men Can Do

Leave first love and be removed from Christ

Revelation 2:5-6  

5 Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.

6 But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

Wax cold in love to God and man

Matthew 24:12  

Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,

Forget ever being purged from sin by the blood of Christ

2 Peter 1:9  

But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

Err from the faith

1 Timothy 1:19  

Holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith.

Perish if cease to hear and follow

Deuteronomy 8:19-20  

19 If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed.

20 Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.

Matthew 18:14  

In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.

1 Corinthians 8:11  

So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

Make shipwreck of faith

1 Timothy 1:9  

We also know that law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,