Bible Verses about “stagnation”

“Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,”

“Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.”

“Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.”

“For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”

“Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”

“that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

“holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.”

“not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.”

“But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come.”

“traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;”

“without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,”

“For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?”

“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,”

“as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,”

“So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.”

“From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.”

“always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

“For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,”

“But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.”

“But I have this against you, that you left your first love.”

“"I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.”

“Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.”

“Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.”

“Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith, are rejected.”

“But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

“But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.”

“But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,”

“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.”

“Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.”

“Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,”

“saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.'”

“which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches."”

“Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.”

“He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field;”

“As therefore the darnel weeds are gathered up and burned with fire; so will it be at the end of this age.”

“Let both grow together until the harvest, and in the harvest time I will tell the reapers, "First, gather up the darnel weeds, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn."'"”

“When the sun had risen, they were scorched. Because they had no root, they withered away.”

“Others fell among thorns. The thorns grew up and choked them.”

“He spoke another parable to them. "The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened."”

“He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.”

“As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.”

“Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.”

“"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.”

“Don't be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.”

“He set another parable before them, saying, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,”

“but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.”

“But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.”

“The servants of the householder came and said to him, 'Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where did this darnel come from?'”

“"He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' "The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and gather them up?'”

“"But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.”