Bible Verses about “sneaky people”

“Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

“But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.”

“Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.”

“For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;”

“For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.”

“But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,”

“Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.”

“But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.”

“For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.”

“But refuse profane and old wives' fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.”

“For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.”

“forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.”

“persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. Out of them all the Lord delivered me.”

“through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;”

“Beloved, don't be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.”

“Don't neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.”

“They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.”

“In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.”

“For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,”

“and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.”

“Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.”

“Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.”

“and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,”

“Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.”

“Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.”

“For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.”

“This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.”

“and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way. Walk in it."”

“There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.”

“Command and teach these things.”

“For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.”

“If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.”

“For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.”

“of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.”

“Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.”

“Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.”

“Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection--not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,”

“For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence." You refused,”

“that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.”

“This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;”

“For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;”

“In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;”

“that you won't be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises.”

“For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.”

“where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”

“This will we do, if God permits.”

“but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.”

“We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,”

“For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,”

“Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.”