Unjust Deed

And he will answer, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’

The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the sons of light.

I tell you, use worldly wealth to make friends for yourselves so that when it is gone, they will welcome you into eternal dwellings.

And the Lord said, “Listen to the words of the unjust judge.

He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is a man of truth; in Him there is no falsehood.

(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.

For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.

They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.

But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.

Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness.

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!

Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

In what way were you inferior to the other churches, except that I was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.

Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”

For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”

The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.

They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

All unrighteousness is sin, yet there is sin that does not lead to death.