Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Sins mentioned in the Bible - 3

Rape

Genesis 34:2

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and violated her

Kindly read 2 Samuel chapter 13

Plotting murder

 Genesis 37:18-22 

18 But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

19 “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. 

20 “Come now, let's kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a 
ferocious animal devoured him. Then we'll see what comes of his dreams.”

21 When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let's not take his life,” he said. 

22 “Don't shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the desert, but don't lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father.

Envy

Genesis 37:11 

His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

Romans 1:29 

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,

2 Corinthians 12:20 

For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.




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