are spots.

2 Peter 2:13, 14
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. . . .

feasts.

1 Corinthians 11:21, 22
For as you eat, many of you proceed with your own meal to the exclusion of others. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk. . . .

feeding.

Psalm 78:29-31
So they ate and were well filled, for He gave them what they craved. . . .

Isaiah 56:10-12
Israel's watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber. . . .

Ezekiel 34:8, 18
As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because My flock lacks a shepherd and has become prey and food for every wild beast, and because My shepherds did not search for My flock but fed themselves instead, . . .

Luke 12:19, 20, 45
Then I will say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!"' . . .

Luke 16:19
Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

Luke 21:34
But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life--and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

Philippians 3:19
Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and their glory is in their shame. Their minds are set on earthly things.

1 Thessalonians 5:6, 7
So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober. . . .

James 5:5
You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter.

clouds.

Proverbs 25:14
Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.

Hosea 6:4
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.

2 Peter 2:17
These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.

carried.

Ephesians 4:14
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed about by the waves and carried around by every wind of teaching and by the clever cunning of men in their deceitful scheming.

trees.

Psalm 1:3
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.

Psalm 37:2
For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.

Matthew 13:6
But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

Matthew 21:19, 20
Seeing a fig tree along the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. "May you never bear fruit again!" He said. And immediately the tree withered. . . .

Mark 4:6
But when the sun rose, the seedlings were scorched, and they withered because they had no root.

Mark 11:21
Peter remembered it and said, "Look, Rabbi! The fig tree You cursed has withered."

Luke 8:6
Other seed fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the seedlings withered because they had no moisture.

John 15:4-6
Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me. . . .

twice.

1 Timothy 5:6
But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

Hebrews 6:4-8
It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, . . .

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2 Peter 2:18-20
With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error. . . .

plucked.

2 Chronicles 7:20
then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and this temple that I have sanctified for My Name I will banish from My presence. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

Ezekiel 17:9
So you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Will it flourish? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it shrivels? All its foliage will wither! It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by its roots.

Matthew 15:13
But Jesus replied, "Every plant that My Heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by its roots.

Mark 11:20
As they were walking back in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from its roots.