Bible Verses About Self-Delusion

But if that euil seruant shall say in his heart, My master doth deferre his comming,

And begin to smite his fellowes, and to eate, and to drinke with the drunken,

That seruaunts master will come in a day, when he looketh not for him, and in an houre that he is not ware of,

And will cut him off, and giue him his portion with hypocrites: there shalbe weeping, and gnashing of teeth.

Afterwards came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to vs.

But he answered, and said, Verely I say vnto you, I knowe you not.

Therefore he thought with himselfe, saying, What shall I doe, because I haue no roume, where I may lay vp my fruites?

And he said, This wil I do, I wil pul downe my barnes, and builde greater, and therein will I gather all my fruites, and my goods.

And I wil say to my soule, Soule, thou hast much goods laide vp for many yeeres: liue at ease, eate, drinke and take thy pastime.

But God said vnto him, O foole, this night wil they fetch away thy soule from thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided?

Striue to enter in at the straite gate: for many, I say vnto you, will seeke to enter in, and shall not be able.

When the good man of the house is risen vp, and hath shut to the doore, and ye begin to stand without, and to knocke at the doore, saying, Lord, Lord, open to vs, and he shall answere and say vnto you, I know you not whence ye are,

Then shall ye begin to say, We haue eaten and drunke in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streetes.

The Pharise stoode and prayed thus with himselfe, O God, I thanke thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, vniust, adulterers, or euen as this Publican.

They answered him, Wee be Abrahams seede, and were neuer bonde to any man: why sayest thou then, Ye shalbe made free?

Ye do the workes of your father. Then said they to him, We are not borne of fornication: we haue one Father, which is God.

For when they shall say, Peace, and safetie, then shall come vpon them sudden destruction, as the trauaile vpon a woman with childe, and they shall not escape,

And in al deceiuablenes of vnrighteousnes, among them that perish, because they receiued not the loue of the trueth, that they might be saued.

And therefore God shall send them strong delusion, that they should beleeue lies,

Goe to now ye that say, To day or to morowe we will goe into such a citie, and continue there a yeere, and bye and sell, and get gaine,

And say, Where is the promise of his comming? for since the fathers died, all things continue alike from the beginning of the creation.

For thou saiest, I am rich and increased with goods, and haue neede of nothing, and knowest not howe thou art wretched and miserable, and poore, and blinde, and naked.