...and the scriptures cannot be broken.
Exodus 23:
6 You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute.
7 Keep yourself far from a false matter; do not kill the innocent and righteous.
For I will not justify the wicked.
8 And you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts
the words of the righteous.
9 Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger,
because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Those who shed innocent blood are wicked.
Those who add/subtract from the word of God are wicked.
Those who oppress and persecute the innocent, the righteous,
the stranger, the widow, the orphan are wicked.
God does not justify the wicked.
Acts 2:
37 Now when they heard, they were convicted in the heart,
and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles,
Men and brethren, what shall we do?
38 Then Peter said to them, Repent, and let every one of you be baptized
in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 For the promise is to you and to your children,
and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.
Psalm 50:
16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes,
or that thou should take my covenant in thy mouth?
17 Seeing thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee.
Psalm 59:5 Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel,
awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.
Selah.
True, whether Old or New Covenants, God does not change, only the covenants change. The new life in Christ by faith in Lord Jesus is a faith that is evidenced by renouncing the old master of sin, and then turning to Lord Jesus in faith evidenced by following Him into a sanctified life onto righteousness and love. That is what it means to walk in the Spirit (
Romans 6;
Colossians 3:1-17;
Galatians 5:11-25,
Galatians 6:7-9;
Romans 8:12-14, and many more).
1 Corinthians 10:1-12 (WEB) Now
I would not have you ignorant, brothers and sisters, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 and all ate the same spiritual food; 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. 5
However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for
they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were
our examples, to the intent
we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. 7
Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” [Exodus 32:6] 8
Let us not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. 9
Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents. 10
Do not grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. 11
Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come. 12
Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he does not fall.
Hebrews 10:24-31 (WEB)
24
Let us consider how to provoke one another to
love and
good works, 25 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. 26
For if we sin willfully after
we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain
fearful expectation of judgment, and a
fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. 28 A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses. 29
How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant
with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has
insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me.
I will repay,” says the Lord. [
Deuteronomy 32:35] Again, “The Lord will judge
HIS people.” [
Deuteronomy 32:36;
Psalms 135:14] 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Hebrews 12:25 (WEB) 25 See that
you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth,
how much more will
we not escape who
turn away from him who warns from heaven
Luke 21:34-36 (WEB) 34 “
So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. 35 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth. 36 Therefore
be watchful all the time, praying that you may be
counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and
to stand before the Son of Man.”
Galatians 5:24-25 (WEB) 24 Those
who belong to Christ have
crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts. 25
If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 (WEB) 3
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that
you abstain from sexual immorality, 4 that
each one of you know how to
control his own body in sanctification and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God, 6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because
the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also
we forewarned you and testified. 7 For
God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. 8 Therefore
he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
Hebrews 4:11 (WEB) 11
Let us therefore
give diligence to enter into that Rest,
lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
1 Peter 1:13-19 (WEB) 13 Therefore
prepare your minds for action.
Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ— 14
as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, 15 but
just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; 16 because it is written, “
You shall be holy; for I am holy.” [
Leviticus 11:44-45] 17
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear, 18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold,
from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ
2 Peter 1:8-11 (WEB) 8 For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to not be idle or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For
he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. 10 Therefore, brothers and sisters,
be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For
if you do these things, you will never stumble. 11 For
thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ
