Nave’s Topical Bible
Self-Delusion
33 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- A characteristic of wicked people
- Prosperity frequently leads to
- Obstinate sinners often given up to
- Exhibited in thinking that
- Our own ways are right
- We should adhere to established wicked practices
- We are pure
- We are better than others
- We are rich in spiritual things
- We may have peace while in sin
- We are above adversity
- Gifts entitle us to go to heaven
- Privileges entitle us to enter heaven
- God will not punish our sins
- Christ will not come to condemn us
- Our lives will be prolonged
- Frequently persevered in, to the end
- Fatal consequences of
Matthew 7:23; Matthew 24:48-51; Luke 12:20; 1 Thessalonians 5:3
- EXEMPLIFIED
- Ahab
- Israelites
- Jews
- The Laodicean congregation
See SECURITY, FALSE
Bible verses about “Self-Delusion”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Psalms 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.
- Psalms 30:6And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
- Hosea 12:8And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
- Luke 12:17And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
- Luke 12:18And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
- Luke 12:19And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
- Psalms 81:11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
- Psalms 81:12So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
- Hosea 4:17Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
- Proverbs 14:12There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
- Jeremiah 44:17But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
- Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
- Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
- Revelation 3:17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
- Deuteronomy 29:19And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
- Psalms 10:6He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
- Matthew 7:21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
- Matthew 7:22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
- Matthew 3:9And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
- Luke 13:25When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
- Luke 13:26Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
- Jeremiah 5:12They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:
- 2 Peter 3:4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
- Isaiah 56:12Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
- James 4:13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
- Matthew 25:11Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
- Matthew 25:12But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
- Luke 13:24Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
- Matthew 7:23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
- Matthew 24:48But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
- Matthew 24:49And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
- Matthew 24:50The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
- Matthew 24:51And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Luke 12:20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
- 1 Kings 20:27And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.
- 1 Kings 20:34And Ben–hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from thy father, I will restore; and thou shalt make streets for thee in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send thee away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.
- John 8:33They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?