Bible verses about "atheism" | Riverside

³⁷ if I do not do the works of my Father, do not believe me.

⁴⁴ No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

²² But flee the passions of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, in the company of those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. ²³ Avoid foolish disputes of the uneducated, knowing that they give rise to quarrels, ²⁴ and the servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but be courteous to all, skillful in teaching, forbearing, ²⁵ instructing opponents with gentleness, for God may give them a change of heart which will lead them to knowledge of the truth, ²⁶ and they may return to soberness and escape the snare of the Devil when captured by the Lord's servant to do the Lord's will.

⁸ Beware that no one carries you away captive by his philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary teachings of the world and not according to Christ.

¹⁴ But the animal man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them because they are spiritually understood.

¹ THE Spirit says distinctly that in later times some will desert from the faith, giving attention to deceiving spirits and teachings of demons, ² through the hypocrisy of men who teach falsely, branded in their own consciences, ³ forbidding marriage, and insisting on abstinence from certain kinds of food which God made to be partaken of with thanksgiving by those who are faithful and know the truth. ⁴ For everything made by God is excellent and nothing is to be rejected if taken with thanksgiving. ⁵ For it is made holy through God's message and through prayer.

¹⁹ Because what may be known of God is manifest within them, for God has manifested it to them. ²⁰ For God's invisible qualities — his everlasting power and deity — are, since the creation of the world, clearly seen, being known from what he has made. So they are without any excuse.

²⁴ You see that a man is pronounced righteous because of works and not because of faith alone.

¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, aliens from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, and because of the hardness of their hearts.

²² On some have pity when they are in doubt;