What Does the Bible Say About Deflection?

2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

1 John 5:2-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome. For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. ...

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

James 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.

Philippians 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,

Philippians 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,

2 Corinthians 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Romans 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

Romans 8:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

John 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ...

Psalm 3:1-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me; many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” Selah But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. I cried aloud to the Lord, and he answered me from his holy hill. Selah I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me. ...

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Psalm 51:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

20 Bible Verses about Deflection

2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 John 5:2-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 3:1-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 51:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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20 Bible Verses about Deflection

2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 5:2-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

James 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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2 Corinthians 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Romans 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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2 Timothy 4:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 John 5:2-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 3:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 15:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 3:1-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 51:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote