Bending and twisting scripture to make it comfortably conform to the flesh and the world. Spiritually oblivious and refuse to admit it.
1 Kings 22:13–14 ( KJV 1900 )
13 And
the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah spake unto him, saying,
Behold now, the words of the prophets declare good unto the king with
one mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of
them, and speak that which is good.
14
And Micaiah said, As the Lord
liveth, what the Lord
saith unto me, that will I speak.
Proverbs 14:12 ( KJV 1900 )
12
There is a way which seemeth right unto a
man, But the end thereof are the ways of
death.
Proverbs 16:25 ( KJV 1900 )
25
There is a way that seemeth right unto a
man, But the end thereof are the ways of
death.
Isaiah 5:20–21 ( KJV 1900 )
20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good
evil; That put darkness for light, and
light for darkness; That put bitter for
sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21
Woe unto them that are wise in their own
eyes, And prudent in their own sight!
Isaiah 30:9–11 ( KJV 1900 )
9
That this is a rebellious people, lying
children, Children that will not hear the
law of the Lord:
10
Which say to the seers, See not; And
to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, Speak
unto us smooth things, Prophesy deceits:
11 Get
you out of the way, Turn aside out of the
path, Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease
from before us.
Jeremiah 5:30–31 ( KJV 1900 )
30 A
wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;
31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the
priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so:
and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah 8:8–9 ( KJV 1900 )
8
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of
the Lord is with
us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in
vain.
9 The
wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have
rejected the word of the Lord;
and what wisdom is in them?
Jeremiah 17:9 ( KJV 1900 )
9
The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jeremiah 23:16–17 ( KJV 1900 )
16 Thus
saith the Lord of
hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto
you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and
not out of the mouth of the Lord.
17 They
say still unto them that despise me, The Lord
hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto
every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No
evil shall come upon you.
Ezekiel 13:22 ( KJV 1900 )
22
Because with lies ye have made the heart of
the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the
hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way,
by promising him life:
Ezekiel 22:26 ( KJV 1900 )
26
Her priests have violated my law, and have
profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the
holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the
unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and
I am profaned among them.
Hosea 4:6 ( KJV 1900 )
6
My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge: Because thou hast rejected
knowledge, I will also reject thee, that
thou shalt be no priest to me: Seeing thou
hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will
also forget thy children.
Micah 2:11 ( KJV 1900 )
11
If a man walking in the spirit and
falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy
unto thee of wine and of strong drink; He
shall even be the prophet of this people.
Matthew 7:13–14 ( KJV 1900 )
13 Enter
ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way,
that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14
Because strait is the
gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there
be that find it.
Matthew 15:6–9 ( KJV 1900 )
6
And honour not his
father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the
commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
7
Ye hypocrites, well
did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8
This people draweth
nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but
their heart is far from me.
9
But in vain they do
worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Matthew 24:11–12 ( KJV 1900 )
11 And
many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12
And because iniquity
shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
John 3:19–20 ( KJV 1900 )
19
And this is the
condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved
darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20
For every one that
doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his
deeds should be reproved.
Acts 20:29–30 ( KJV 1900 )
29
For I know this, that after my departing
shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30
Also of your own selves shall men arise,
speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Romans 1:21–25 ( KJV 1900 )
21
Because that, when they knew God, they
glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in
their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22
Professing themselves to be wise, they
became fools,
23
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible
God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and
fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24
Wherefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their
own bodies between themselves:
25
Who changed the truth of God into a lie,
and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is
blessed for ever. Amen.
Romans 1:28–32 ( KJV 1900 )
28
And even as they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do
those things which are not convenient;
29
Being filled with all unrighteousness,
fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy,
murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30
Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful,
proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without
understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection,
implacable, unmerciful:
32
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they
which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same,
but have pleasure in them that do them.
Romans 6:12–13 ( KJV 1900 )
12
Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal
body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13
Neither yield ye your members as
instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto
God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as
instruments of righteousness unto God.
Romans 8:5–8 ( KJV 1900 )
5
For they that are after the flesh do mind
the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the
things of the Spirit.
6
For to be carnally minded is death; but to
be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7
Because the carnal mind is enmity against
God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
8 So
then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 12:2 ( KJV 1900 )
2
And be not conformed to this world: but be
ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what
is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Romans 16:17–18 ( KJV 1900 )
17 Now
I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences
contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
18
For they that are such serve not our Lord
Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair
speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
1 Corinthians 2:14 ( KJV 1900 )
14 But
the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for
they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they
are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 3:1–3 ( KJV 1900
)
1 And
I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto
carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.
2
I have fed you with milk, and not with
meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are
ye able.
3
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is
among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and
walk as men?
2 Corinthians 2:17 ( KJV 1900 )
17 For
we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of
sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:4 ( KJV 1900 )
4
In whom the god of this world hath blinded
the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious
gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
2 Corinthians 10:5 ( KJV 1900 )
5 Casting
down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against
the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to
the obedience of Christ;
2 Corinthians 11:3–4 ( KJV 1900
)
3 But
I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that
is in Christ.
4
For if he that cometh preacheth another
Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit,
which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not
accepted, ye might well bear with him.
Galatians 1:10 ( KJV 1900 )
10
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I
seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the
servant of Christ.
Galatians 5:16–17 ( KJV 1900 )
16 This
I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of
the flesh.
17
For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit,
and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to
the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
Galatians 6:7–8 ( KJV 1900 )
7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
8
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of
the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of
the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Ephesians 4:17–19 ( KJV 1900 )
17 This
I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not
as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18
Having the understanding darkened, being
alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them,
because of the blindness of their heart:
19
Who being past feeling have given
themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with
greediness.
Philippians 3:18–19 ( KJV 1900
)
18 (For
many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even
weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ:
19
Whose end is destruction, whose God is
their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly
things.)
Colossians 2:8 ( KJV 1900 )
8
Beware lest any man spoil you through
philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Colossians 3:2 ( KJV 1900 )
2
Set your affection on things above, not on
things on the earth.
2 Thessalonians 2:10–12 ( KJV
1900 )
10 And
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved.
11
And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12
That they all might be damned who believed
not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
1 Timothy 1:6–7 ( KJV 1900 )
6
From which some having swerved have turned
aside unto vain jangling;
7
Desiring to be teachers of the law;
understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
1 Timothy 4:1–2 ( KJV 1900 )
1
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in
the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their
conscience seared with a hot iron;
1 Timothy 6:3–5 ( KJV 1900 )
3
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not
to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to
the doctrine which is according to godliness;
4
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting
about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife,
railings, evil surmisings,
5
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt
minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness:
from such withdraw thyself.
2 Timothy 2:18 ( KJV 1900 )
18
Who concerning the truth have erred, saying
that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of
some.
2 Timothy 3:1–5 ( KJV 1900 )
1
This know also, that in the last days
perilous times shall come.
2
For men shall be lovers of their own
selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy,
3
Without natural affection, trucebreakers,
false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are
good,
4
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of
pleasures more than lovers of God;
5
Having a form of godliness, but denying the
power thereof: from such turn away.
2 Timothy 4:3–4 ( KJV 1900 )
3
For the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to
themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4
And they shall turn away their ears from
the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Titus 1:16 ( KJV 1900 )
16
They profess that they know God; but in
works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto
every good work reprobate.
Hebrews 5:11–14 ( KJV 1900 )
11 Of
whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye
are dull of hearing.
12
For when for the time ye ought to be
teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first
principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of
milk, and not of strong meat.
13
For every one that useth milk is unskilful
in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
14
But strong meat belongeth to them that are
of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses
exercised to discern both good and evil.
James 1:22–24 ( KJV 1900 )
22
But be ye doers of the word, and not
hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not
a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For
he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth
what manner of man he was.
James 4:4 ( KJV 1900 )
4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not
that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever
therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
2 Peter 2:1–3 ( KJV 1900 )
1
But there were false prophets also among
the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who
privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that
bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2
And many shall follow their pernicious
ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3
And through covetousness shall they with
feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long
time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
2 Peter 2:18–19 ( KJV 1900 )
18 For
when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through
the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were
clean escaped from them who live in error.
19
While they promise them liberty, they
themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is
overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
2 Peter 3:16 ( KJV 1900 )
16
As also in all his epistles, speaking in
them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood,
which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the
other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
1 John 2:15–17 ( KJV 1900 )
15
Love not the world, neither the things that
are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father
is not in him.
16
For all that is in the world, the lust of
the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of
the Father, but is of the world.
17
And the world passeth away, and the lust
thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
1 John 4:5 ( KJV 1900 )
5
They are of the world: therefore speak they
of the world, and the world heareth them.
Jude 4 ( KJV 1900 )
4
For there are certain men crept in
unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation,
ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and
denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 16–19 ( KJV 1900 )
16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking
after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words,
having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
17
But, beloved, remember ye the words which
were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
18
how that they told you there should be
mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly
lusts.
19
These be they who separate themselves,
sensual, having not the Spirit.