Christians:What are some bible verses I can show my christian friend who is clearly in the wrong (read below)?

Question

Lately my friend has been teaming up with our other friends who happen to be unbelievers, criticizing me. Its like he's become my enemy. He lives like how he used to a long time ago when he used to be bad. He started this because we disagreed on a doctrinal issue. He's making it sound like he's better than me spiritually. He's sinned way worse than me. He's had sex with many people, done drugs, etc. I've done none of that anb he knows that.

Answer 1

I heard a paster once say, "Sometimes we're the only Bible some people ever read" Just love your friend anyways, just love him the way Christ first loved you while you were still yet a sinner. It's merely his own pride that makes him "think" he's better than you, his own foolishness blinds him and he thinks he's fooling you, but he's not. He feels guilty around you,so he admonishes himself to try to make himself look better in his own eyes than really is, When all is said and done, sin is sin is sin. And no matter what the degree, the punishment is still the same. You are freed from that and sealed with God's Promise, I wouldn't even get caught up in comparing sins.It doesn't matter. What matter's is where a person's soul is headed. "What good does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul?" Matt 16:26†

There is nothing you can tell him that he doesn't already know. All you can do is ask the Lord to forgive him because he doesn't know what he's doing. And ask the Lord to help you be a living example of Christ whenever he comes around you. so that all he can see in you is Christ and His Spirit,

Let the Holy Spirit work through you to minister to him. In his fallen state,he's not going to listen to you, just say whatever the Lord places in your spirit to say. Say whatever benefits him and his needs for the moment, serve him in love.through Christ. Listen to what he has to say but don't argue or question him.or try to reason with him. You'll just be blowing in the wind if you do.

In order for him to hear and receive what you have to say, he has to ask first, THEN he will hear you. If he's telling you things, and not asking, he's not listening. If you do the telling, he'll only shut you out more. Just ask the Lord what it is, if anything, that he wants you to do. The Lord knows where He is and how to bring Him back. He won't let him wander too far without discipline. Sometimes you gotta just love the person as they are and let God take care of the details, otherwise, we have a tendency to get in the way.

I have dealt with this on several occasions with people, and I soon learned, it's better to keep your mouth shut and just let God handle it. It's not going to do any good if it's our own will and desires, it has to be God's Will that we follow.

A heart has to first be made willing. Kindof like tilling the soil to plant seeds. A persons heart is like soil, and God gives seeds to the sower. You can only give him what God gives you. The Lord had to show me, that we all have our own gardens to tend. and that He is the Gardener, not me.

My sister has also fallen away, and hasn't spoken to me in nearly 3 years. Her husband is not saved & uses drugs and is very abusive to her. He's gotten such control over her mind that she does what he says to keep him happy. He doesn't like me or my husband, so he decided she needs to stay away from us. And she's born again and being around him was really changing her and making her bitter. Scriptures say that you become like the one's you associate closely with.

I had to learn the hard way, it's best to leave it up to God and just love her from afar, So as the Lord leads me, I send her or her children a gift, or a card now and then. I could give her all kinds of verses, but that's not what God intended them for. He wants us to be doers not hearers only. He wants us to make these decisions on our own so they stick.

I used to give her Scriptures and even infuenced to leave him once, But that was short lived,and she only returned to him and resented me for it. Out of spite, she drew herself that much closer to him and his lifestyle. Now she's getting fed up with it and slowly coming to her senses on her own. Little by little,The Lord has really been working on her heart and drawing her back, But only she can do it.

Same with your friend. He has to find out for himself and come to a point where he reaches the end of himself and surrenders it all over to God. He's got to reach the point where he gets sick & tired, of being sick & tired.It may be all fun & games now, but you just wait, the Lord will put an to the that.

Sometimes God throws a pebble to hit you in the head and get your attention. If that doesn't work, He'll send a brick. If you ignore that, and still continue in your ways, you'll hit a brick wall. If that still doesn't wake the person up, the whole wall will come down and crush them. God has His ways, believe Me, as He disciplines His children because He loves them, but His Mercy and Patience is far Greater than ours.

If you try to quote him verses, he will only resent you for it and point out your faults. Trust me on this, The best way to is to walk in the Word yourself and be as a light unto those who choose to follow after darkness. When you're walking in the Truth of God's Word, and loving life and praising the Lord in your own spirit, you become like a mirror to those who have strayed.

Don't let any arrow penetrate your spirit, Let his criticisms bounce off of you. When he throws the ball at you, just let it hit the floor so to speak. Make sure you are uplifted yourself and don't get caught up trying to figure him out or worrying. When he comes to mind, just keep lifting him up to Jesus.

Answer 2

We live in world in which rape, drunkeness and incest are much too common place. About 1 in 4 women will experience some kind of a rape or sexual assult during their lifetime. I don't even want to know the statistics on how many people get drunk or stoned and do stupid things at some point during this life. So for the Bible to be the true word of God, it needs to address those issues. It needs to show the trouble that comes from getting so drunk that you can be molested (two nights in a row) and not know it. Or to show the results of incest. Both Moab and Ammon were real nations, known in history and from hundreds of sources outside of the Bible. They were both nations that were in consent conflict and war with each other and the Jews. Wars that would not have been happening had the daughters not raped their father. Dire consequences for their actions - probably thousands (if not millions) killed over the centuries because of it. Since this kind of thing happens frequently, of course God is going to include it in his word. He is showing the evil of such actions, and their consequences. He also places several laws against such actions, including drunkeness, rape and incest. If this was simply a book written by man, they would have swept all of that under the rug, and left Lot looking like a saint. God, however, records all the facts. How else are we to learn the evils of such deeds?

Answer 3

I gotta say one thing first: sin is sin. It doesn't matter what you've done or how much you've done of it; if it's anything you think, say or do that doesn't please God- it's sin. So no matter how much your friend has done or you've done- it doesn't matter. It's by God's grace that any of us are here. That doesn't give us a license to sin. We all still need to work on our relationship with Him. It's about the relationship, not the religion and traditions, etc. It's about your personal relationship with Christ. As far as Bible verses I don't really have any at the moment. But I can say that you should pray for your friend. Sin catches up with you- believe me. It's only fun for a season. If he is a true believer he'll come back.

Answer 4

When people get this way, there isn't much you can do but STAY out of their way. When people chose to hang around with the wrong crowd, do drugs, and live in bad behaviors, nothing you say or do is going to "penetrate" the mentalities because for one they are living in the "insanities" of the WORLD. All you will accomplish for yourself is for your friend to hate you even worse by trying to SAVE him. That SALVATION has to come from within him and sad to say may take some time which may last YEARS....................

Answer 5

All our good works and bad works(sin) is before God. When he is already going way beyond, he needs only God's help. So pray for him if he is really your friend. And because when someone sins they cant see that the other way is good and suddenly change, only God can work in thier hearts.

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Answer 6

I advise you to back off the shoving bible verses in the face of a person who will not receive them (I am a Christian, and I know that people with no ears to hear will not react well to your doing this). Prayer in the name of Jesus Christ has more power than you can possibly imagine. Start praying for your friend that God will protect him, and put his feet on a righteous path.

Answer 7

sin is sin, and one sin is no worse than the next. So do not say you are better than he is, because we all sin and fall short of the Glory of God.

Since I do not know what doctrinal issue you have disagreed on, I cannot give you scriptures to back you up .... we need the details if that is the help you want

Answer 8

hi , my name is polizzca and i have some bible verse you can share it with you friend . *1. Revelition 3-20
*2 . JOHN 3-16 , * 3 . JOHN 14-6

Answer 9

To begin with my friend, if this person has teamed up with the ungodly against you, it appears that he has back slidden, and to restore him, this person needs prayer and maybe for you to fast for his restoration. Although I know the Word of God to be powerful and active, I feel that quoting scripture to him at this time would just get his back up. What this person needs is to know that you care for him, and so I would say - go out of your way to show him acts of kindness.
Getting into arguments regarding scripture is not beneficial.
In the meantime I will pray that you will do what you know is right for your friend, and I will also pray that he will be restored to our loving heavenly Father.
God bless you!

Answer 10

Proverbs 1
10 My son, if sinners entice you,
Do not consent.
11 If they say, “Come with us,
Let us lie in wait to shed blood;
Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,[a]
And whole, like those who go down to the Pit;
13 We shall find all kinds of precious possessions,
We shall fill our houses with spoil;
14 Cast in your lot among us,
Let us all have one purse”—
15 My son, do not walk in the way with them,
Keep your foot from their path;
16 For their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely, in vain the net is spread
In the sight of any bird;
18 But they lie in wait for their own blood,
They lurk secretly for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain;
It takes away the life of its owners.

Matthew 12
43 “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none. 44 Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.”

2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

Answer 11

For people to give you bible verses to prove your friend wrong, Wouldn't people need to know is which way is he being wrong? Or do you want verse that show that he is wrong for teeming up with friends that are not believers ?