Bible verses about "perversity" | BBE

³¹ And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation.

¹ So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk, ² Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation; ³ If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord: ⁴ To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God; ⁵ You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame. ⁷ And the value is for you who have faith; but it is said for those without faith, The very stone which the builders put on one side, was made the chief stone of the building; ⁸ And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God. ⁹ But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven. ¹⁰ In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you. ¹¹ My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul; ¹² Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge. ¹³ Keep all the laws of men because of the Lord; those of the king, who is over all, ¹⁴ And those of the rulers who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of those who do well. ¹⁵ Because it is God's pleasure that foolish and narrow-minded men may be put to shame by your good behaviour: ¹⁶ As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God; ¹⁷ Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king. ¹⁸ Servants, take orders from your masters with all respect; not only if they are good and gentle, but even if they are bad-humoured. ¹⁹ For it is a sign of grace if a man, desiring to do right in the eyes of God, undergoes pain as punishment for something which he has not done. ²⁰ What credit is it if, when you have done evil, you take your punishment quietly? but if you are given punishment for doing right, and take it quietly, this is pleasing to God. ²¹ This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps: ²² Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth: ²³ To sharp words he gave no sharp answer; when he was undergoing pain, no angry word came from his lips; but he put himself into the hands of the judge of righteousness: ²⁴ He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well. ²⁵ Because, like sheep, you had gone out of the way; but now you have come back to him who keeps watch over your souls.

²⁶ For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins, ²⁷ But only a great fear of being judged, and of the fire of wrath which will be the destruction of the haters of God.

² For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.

⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

⁴ For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

¹ My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one: ² He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world. ³ And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws. ⁴ The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him: ⁵ But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him: ⁶ He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did. ⁷ My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears. ⁸ Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out. ⁹ He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark. ¹⁰ He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him. ¹¹ But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark. ¹² I am writing to you, my children, because you have forgiveness of sins through his name. ¹³ I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father. ¹⁴ I have sent a letter to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I have sent a letter to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God is in you, and because you have overcome the Evil One. ¹⁵ Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world. ¹⁷ And the world and its desires is coming to an end: but he who does God's pleasure is living for ever. ¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour; and as you were given word that the Antichrist would come, so now a number of Antichrists have come to you; and by this we are certain that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us. ²⁰ And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge. ²¹ I have not sent you this letter because you have no knowledge of what is true, but because you have knowledge, and because that which is false has nothing in common with that which is true. ²² Who is false but he who says that Jesus is not the Christ? He is the Antichrist who has no belief in the Father or the Son. ²³ He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father. ²⁴ But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son. ²⁵ And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life. ²⁶ I am writing these things to you about those whose purpose is that you may be turned out of the true way. ²⁷ As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you. ²⁸ And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming. ²⁹ If you have knowledge that he is upright, it is clear to you that everyone who does righteousness is his offspring.

²² You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

¹⁰ For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.

¹⁴ But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire. ¹⁵ Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.