Reprobacy: General Scriptures Concerning

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time. …

…because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”

If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you: …

On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’

And on that day I will surely hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.

But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.

So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand, …

And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’

Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth. …

Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.

Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink. …

I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”

They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”

As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.

Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!

They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ …

But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of eternal sin.”

“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. …

For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.’”

But because you are not My sheep, you refuse to believe.

While I was with them, I protected and preserved them by Your name, the name You gave Me. Not one of them has been lost, except the son of destruction, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.

Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,

…as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”

Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root, …

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you fail the test? …

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but the one who now restrains it will continue until he is taken out of the way. …

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.

Therefore I was angry with that generation, and I said, ‘Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known My ways.’ …

And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? …

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, …

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, …

See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many. …

If anyone sees his brother committing a sin not leading to death, he should ask God, who will give life to those who commit this kind of sin. There is a sin that leads to death; I am not saying he should ask regarding that sin.

For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. …

Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.”