Battlefield » Bondage, Emptiness, and Folly

 

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Scripture References
  • “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin.” (John 8:34 NKJV)
  • ...in bondage under the elements of the world... (Galatians 4:3 KJV)
  • ...who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. (Hebrews 2:15 NKJV)
  • ...they shall eat, but not have enough; they shall commit harlotry, but not increase; because they have ceased obeying the LORD. Harlotry, wine, and new wine enslave the heart. (Hosea 4:10-11 NKJV)
  • No one calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; they conceive evil and bring forth iniquity. (Isaiah 59:4 NKJV)
  • How then can you comfort me with empty words, since falsehood remains in your answers? (Job 21:34 NKJV)
  • ...when a hungry man dreams, and look--he eats; but he awakes, and his soul is still empty; or as when a thirsty man dreams, And look--he drinks; but he awakes, and indeed he is faint, and his soul still craves: (Isaiah 29:8 NKJV)
  • Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. (Colossians 2:8-9 NKJV)
  • “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. Then he says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.” (Matthew 12:43-45 NKJV)
  • His own iniquities entrap the wicked man, and he is caught in the cords of his sin. He shall die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. (Proverbs 5:22-23 NKJV)
  • Folly is joy to him who is destitute of discernment... (Proverbs 15:21 NKJV)
  • Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs, rather than a fool in his folly. (Proverbs 17:12 NKJV