Lawless (Noncompliance)

Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’

The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness.

In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.

For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For what is written about Me is reaching its fulfillment.”

He was delivered up by God’s set plan and foreknowledge, and you, by the hands of the lawless, put Him to death by nailing Him to the cross.

All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.

“Blessed are they whose lawless acts are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

To those without the law I became like one without the law (though I am not outside the law of God but am under the law of Christ), to win those without the law.

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.

Let no one deceive you in any way, for it will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness—the son of destruction—is revealed.

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.

We realize that law is not enacted for the righteous, but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for killers of father or mother, for murderers,

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You above Your companions with the oil of joy.”

Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.”

and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless

Therefore, beloved, since you already know these things, be on your guard so that you will not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure standing.

(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

Everyone who practices sin practices lawlessness as well. Indeed, sin is lawlessness.