Rm1:18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. 21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. 24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. 26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. 28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved2 mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. - NIV
1Jhn1:5This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God
is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6If we claim to have
fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the
truth. 7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from
all sin. 8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not
in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will
forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10If we
claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place
in our lives. 2:1My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But
if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense--Jesus
Christ, the Righteous One. 2He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins,
and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. - NIV
1Pet2:1So put away [rid yourselves of] all malice and
all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all
slander. 2Like newborn infants, long for
[crave] the pure spiritual milk,
that by it you may grow up to [in your] salvation-- 3if
indeed [now that] you have tasted
that the Lord is good. - ESV
2 - deprave: to make bad, to corrupt morally, degrade with unsound
principles or moral values. ^
Also see: Deception by Sin and Deception
by People and The
Hypocrite
Challenge: True Life