The Basics

1. BACKBITING

PSALMS 15:1-3 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill.

Vs.2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

Vs.3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor.

PROVERBS 25:23 As the north wind drives away rain, so does an angery countenance, a backbiting tongue.

2. BACKSLIDING

PROVERBS 14:14 The backslider in heart, shall be filled with his own ways.

1 TIMOTHY 1:19 Holding faith and a good conscience which some have put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.

2 TIMOTHY Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world.

2 PETER 2:20-22 For if after they have escaped the pollution’s of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcomed, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

Vs.21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

Vs.22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

3. BAPTISM

ACTS 2:38 Repent and be baptized every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.

ACTS 8:12 And when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

ACTS 8:35-38 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.

Vs.36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what does hinder me to be baptized?

Vs.37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. and he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

Vs.38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

4. BLINDNESS - SPIRITUAL

2 CORINTHIANS 4:3-4 But If our gospel be hid, It is hid to them that are lost:

Vs.4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

EPHESIANS 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

ISAIAH 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light:

JOHN 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

5. BLOOD

HEBREWS 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

ROMANS 5:9 ...Being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through
him.

EPHESIANS 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace.

6. BOASTING

PROVERBS 25:14 Whoso boasteth himself, of a false gift, is like clouds and wind without rain.

PROVERBS 27:2 Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger and not thine own lips.

1 CORINTHIANS 1:31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

2 CORINTHIANS 10:18 Not he that commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

PSALMS 103:14 He knows our frame, he remembers that we are dust.

ROMANS 8:13 If ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

1 CORINTHIANS 6:19 Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

1 CORINTHIANS 9:27 I keep under my body and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

8. BORROWING

DEUTERONMY 23:19 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother.

PROVERBS 22:7 The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

MATTHEW 5:42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee
turn not thou away.