Cite this page: Editor: Stephen Smith. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. The refined and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and refinement, shall be hostile toward the husband she cherishes and toward her son and daughter, and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her legs and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in your towns. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. The link between justification and sanctification gets tricky. Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. It shall come about that as the Lord delighted over you to prosper you, and multiply you, so the Lord will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you; and you will be torn from the land where you are entering to possess it. He cant force us to love him. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. What exactly Is a reprobate mind? It is another way of describing a person who is set on satisfying the flesh and not on the Spirit of God. For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears. The list in the passage includes the following: being filled with every kind of wickedness, including greed, envy, murder, deceit, gossip, hatred of God, arrogance, etc. The same Greek word translated reprobate in the King James Bible (adokimos, Strong's Concordance Number #G96) is translated as depraved in the NIV version of Romans 1:28, disapproved in the NKJV version of 2Timothy 3:8 and worthless in the NASB version of Titus 1:16. He makes me lie down in green pastures.