Psalms 81:11-12
11 “But my people did not listen to my voice;Israel awould not submit to me.
12So I bgave them over to their cstubborn hearts,
to follow their own dcounsels.
Hosea 7:6
6For with hearts like an oven ethey approach their intrigue;all night their anger smolders;
in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
Matthew 13:20-22
20As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately freceives it with joy, 21yet he has no root in himself, but gendures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately hhe falls away. ▼▼Or stumbles
22As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but jthe cares of kthe world and lthe deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. John 12:6
6He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and mhaving charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.John 13:2
2During supper, when nthe devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,Acts 5:1-3
Ananias and Sapphira
1But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, 2and with his wife’s knowledge ohe kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and plaid it at the apostles’ feet. 3But Peter said, “Ananias, why has qSatan filled your heart to lie rto the Holy Spirit and sto keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land?Acts 8:18-23
18Now when Simon saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money, 19saying, “Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.” 20But Peter said to him, t“May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God uwith money! 21You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for vyour heart is not right before God. 22Repent, therefore, of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, wif possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you. 23For I see that you are in xthe gall ▼▼That is, a bitter fluid secreted by the liver; bile
of bitterness and in zthe bond of iniquity.”
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