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Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Ezekiel 18:26 OT

  When the righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies therein; in his iniquity that he has done he shall die.

• Ezekiel 23:35 OT

  “Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’ ”

• Ezekiel 33:12 OT

  “You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his…

• Ezekiel 33:13 OT

  When I tell the righteous that he will surely live; if he trusts in his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but he will die in his iniquity that he has committed.

• Ezekiel 33:18 OT

  When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he will even die therein.

• Hosea 11:7 OT

  My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

• Hosea 11:8 OT

  “How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

• Jonah 2:4 OT

  I said, ‘I have been banished from your sight; yet I will look again toward your holy temple.’

• Matthew 5:13 NT

  “You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

• Matthew 12:45 NT

  Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”

• Matthew 24:12 NT

  Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.

• Matthew 26:31 NT

  Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

• Mark 4:7 NT

  Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.

• Mark 4:15-19 NT

  The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them. These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when…

• Mark 8:38 NT

  For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also will be ashamed of him, when he comes in his Father’s glory, with the holy angels.”

• Mark 9:50 NT

  Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

• Luke 9:62 NT

  But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

• Luke 11:21-26 NT

  “When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder. “He that is not with…

• Luke 17:32 NT

  Remember Lot’s wife!

• John 6:67 NT

  Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”

• John 15:6 NT

  If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

• 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 NT

  Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the…

• 2 Corinthians 12:20 NT

  For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander,…

• 2 Corinthians 12:21 NT

  that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.