rSee John 17:12
Matthew 13:20-21
20As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately areceives it with joy, 21yet he has no root in himself, but bendures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately che falls away. ▼▼Or stumbles
Hebrews 10:38
38 ebut my righteous one shall live by faith,and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”
2 Peter 2:18-22
18For, fspeaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely gescaping from those who live in error. 19They promise them hfreedom, ibut they themselves are slaves ▼▼Greek bondservants
of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. 20For if, kafter they have escaped the defilements of the world lthrough the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, mthe last state has become worse for them than the first. 21For nit would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from othe holy commandment delivered to them. 22What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The pdog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.” 1 John 2:19
19 qThey went out from us, but they were not of us; for rif they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, sthat it might become plain that they all are not of us.
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