Proverbs 1:32
“For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.”
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
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“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.”
“Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:”
“But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;”
“So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?”
“God shall hear, and afflict them, even he that abideth of old. Selah. Because they have no changes, therefore they fear not God.”