Self-Delusion

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• 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.’

• Psalms 10:11 OT

  He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

• 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.”

• Luke 12:19 NT

  I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

• James 4:13 NT

  Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

• Matthew 25:11 NT

  Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’

• Matthew 25:12 NT

  But he answered, ‘Most certainly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

• Luke 13:24 NT

  “Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

• Matthew 7:23 NT

  Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

• Matthew 24:48-51 NT

  But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards, the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it, and in…

• Luke 12:20 NT

  “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

• 1 Thessalonians 5:3 NT

  For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

• 1 Kings 20:27 OT

  The children of Israel were mustered and given provisions, and went against them. The children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of young goats; but the Syrians filled the country.