Isaiah 59:14 (NKJV) Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot enter.
Genesis 6:12 (NKJV) So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 (NKJV) 1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
Dostoyevsky reminded us in The Brothers Karamazov that "if God does not exist, everything is permissible." We are now seeing "everything." And much of it is not good to get used to.—William J. Bennett, addressing the 20th anniversary celebration of the Heritage Foundation.
Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "EVIL".
