Death is waiting for anyone who wanders away from good sense.

But they have all gone wrong; they are all equally bad. Not one of them does what is right, not a single one.

Their speech is wicked and full of lies; they no longer do what is wise and good.

When a righteous person stops doing good and starts doing evil and then dies, he dies because of the evil he has done.

"Now, mortal man, tell the Israelites that when someone good sins, the good he has done will not save him. If an evil person stops doing evil, he won't be punished, and if a good man starts sinning, his life will not be spared.

I may promise life to someone good, but if he starts thinking that his past goodness is enough and begins to sin, I will not remember any of the good he did. He will die because of his sins.

I will destroy those who have turned back and no longer follow me, those who do not come to me or ask me to guide them."

"When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one,

Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day."

Demas fell in love with this present world and has deserted me, going off to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

For how can those who abandon their faith be brought back to repent again? They were once in God's light; they tasted heaven's gift and received their share of the Holy Spirit;

And then they abandoned their faith! It is impossible to bring them back to repent again, because they are again crucifying the Son of God and exposing him to public shame.

If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in worse condition at the end than they were at the beginning.

What happened to them shows that the proverbs are true: "A dog goes back to what it has vomited" and "A pig that has been washed goes back to roll in the mud."

These people really did not belong to our fellowship, and that is why they left us; if they had belonged to our fellowship, they would have stayed with us. But they left so that it might be clear that none of them really belonged to us.

The road of the wicked, however, is dark as night. They fall, but cannot see what they have stumbled over.

There are those who reject the light; they don't understand it or go where it leads.

The adulterer waits for twilight to come; he covers his face so that no one can see him.

This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.

Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.

Jesus answered, "The light will be among you a little longer. Continue on your way while you have the light, so that the darkness will not come upon you; for the one who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

They know God, but they do not give him the honor that belongs to him, nor do they thank him. Instead, their thoughts have become complete nonsense, and their empty minds are filled with darkness.

All of you are people who belong to the light, who belong to the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

It is at night when people sleep; it is at night when they get drunk.

God sent his messenger, a man named John,

which now had turned into wine, and he tasted it. He did not know where this wine had come from (but, of course, the servants who had drawn out the water knew); so he called the bridegroom

Jesus performed this first miracle in Cana in Galilee; there he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.