Self-Delusion

Nave's Topical Bible

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

• Psalms 49:18 OT

  Though while he lived he blessed his soul— and men praise you when you do well for yourself—

• Psalms 30:6 OT

  As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”

• Hosea 12:8 OT

  Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

• Luke 12:17-19 NT

  He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’ He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. I will…

• Psalms 81:11 OT

  But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

• Psalms 81:12 OT

  So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

• Hosea 4:17 OT

  Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

• 2 Thessalonians 2:10 NT

  and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:11 NT

  Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

• Proverbs 14:12 OT

  There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

• Jeremiah 44:17 OT

  But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of…

• Proverbs 30:12 OT

  There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

• Luke 18:11 NT

  The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

• Revelation 3:17 NT

  Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

• Deuteronomy 29:19 OT

  and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart,” to destroy the moist with the dry.

• Psalms 10:6 OT

  He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

• Matthew 7:21 NT

  Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

• Matthew 7:22 NT

  Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’

• Matthew 3:9 NT

  Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

• Luke 13:25 NT

  When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’

• Luke 13:26 NT

  Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’

• Jeremiah 5:12 OT

  They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he. Evil will won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.

• 2 Peter 3:4 NT

  and saying, “Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.”

• Isaiah 56:12 OT

  “Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”