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What does the Bible say about lawlessness?



    
    

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My picture Jack Gutknecht ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Acts 2:22-23:
“Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.”

2 Corinthians 6:14:
“Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?”

1 John 3:4:
“Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.”

Matthew 24:12:
“Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold.”

2 Thessalonians 2:7:
“For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.”

Matthew 23:27-28:
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.”

Titus 2:14:
“Who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.”

Hebrews 10:17:
“And their sins and their lawless deeds
I will remember no more.”

Selected verses from bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Lawlessness

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Shea S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries
To be lawless is to be contrary to the law or to act without regard to the law. Laws are necessary in a sinful world (1 Timothy 1:9), and those who choose to act lawlessly further sin in the world....

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