1John 5:16 Cross References
1 John 5:16
16: If you see a Christian brother or sister sinning in a way that does not lead to death, you should pray, and God will give that person life. But there is a sin that leads to death, and I am not saying you should pray for those who commit it.
Hebrews 6:4
- For it is impossible to restore to repentance those who were once enlightened--those who have experienced the good things of heaven and shared in the Holy Spirit,
- who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the power of the age to come--
- and who then turn away from God. It is impossible to bring such people to repentance again because they are nailing the Son of God to the cross again by rejecting him, holding him up to public shame.
Jeremiah 11:14
- "Pray no more for these people, Jeremiah. Do not weep or pray for them, for I will not listen to them when they cry out to me in distress.
1 Samuel 2:25
- If someone sins against another person, God can mediate for the guilty party. But if someone sins against the LORD, who can intercede?" But Eli's sons wouldn't listen to their father, for the LORD was already planning to put them to death.
Hebrews 10:26
- Dear friends, if we deliberately continue sinning after we have received a full knowledge of the truth, there is no other sacrifice that will cover these sins.
- There will be nothing to look forward to but the terrible expectation of God's judgment and the raging fire that will consume his enemies.
- Anyone who refused to obey the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
- Think how much more terrible the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God and have treated the blood of the covenant as if it were common and unholy. Such people have insulted and enraged the Holy Spirit who brings God's mercy to his people.
- For we know the one who said, "I will take vengeance. I will repay those who deserve it." He also said, "The Lord will judge his own people."
Numbers 15:30
- "But those who brazenly violate the LORD's will, whether native Israelites or foreigners, blaspheme the LORD, and they must be cut off from the community.
Matthew 12:31
- "Every sin or blasphemy can be forgiven--except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which can never be forgiven.
- Anyone who blasphemes against me, the Son of Man, can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven, either in this world or in the world to come.
Jeremiah 7:16
- "Pray no more for these people, Jeremiah. Do not weep or pray for them, and don't beg me to help them, for I will not listen to you.
James 5:14
- Are any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.
- And their prayer offered in faith will heal the sick, and the Lord will make them well. And anyone who has committed sins will be forgiven.
Luke 12:10
- Yet those who speak against the Son of Man may be forgiven, but anyone who speaks blasphemies against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven.
2 Peter 2:20
- And when people escape from the wicked ways of the world by learning about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up with sin and become its slave again, they are worse off than before.
- It would be better if they had never known the right way to live than to know it and then reject the holy commandments that were given to them.
- They make these proverbs come true: "A dog returns to its vomit," and "A washed pig returns to the mud."
Jeremiah 14:11
- Then the LORD said to me, "Do not pray for these people anymore.
Mark 3:28
- "I assure you that any sin can be forgiven, including blasphemy;
- but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. It is an eternal sin."
- He told them this because they were saying he had an evil spirit.
Jeremiah 18:18
- Then the people said, "Come on, let's find a way to stop Jeremiah. We have our own priests and wise men and prophets. We don't need him to teach the law and give us advice and prophecies. Let's spread rumors about him and ignore what he says."
- LORD, help me! Listen to what they are planning to do to me!
- Should they repay evil for good? They have set a trap to kill me, though I pleaded for them and tried to protect them from your anger.
- So let their children starve! Let the sword pour out their blood! Let their wives become widows without any children! Let their old men die in a plague, and let their young men be killed in battle!
Genesis 20:7
- Now return her to her husband, and he will pray for you, for he is a prophet. Then you will live. But if you don't return her to him, you can be sure that you and your entire household will die."
Genesis 20:17
- Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and the other women of the household, so they could have children.
Jeremiah 15:1
- Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I wouldn't help them. Away with them! Get them out of my sight!
- And if they say to you, `But where can we go?' tell them, `This is what the LORD says: Those who are destined for death, to death; those who are destined for war, to war; those who are destined for famine, to famine; those who are destined for captivity, to captivity.'
Exodus 34:9
- And he said, "If it is true that I have found favor in your sight, O Lord, then please go with us. Yes, this is an unruly and stubborn people, but please pardon our iniquity and our sins. Accept us as your own special possession."
Numbers 12:13
- So Moses cried out to the LORD, "Heal her, O God, I beg you!"
John 17:9
- "My prayer is not for the world, but for those you have given me, because they belong to you.
Numbers 14:11
- And the LORD said to Moses, "How long will these people reject me? Will they never believe me, even after all the miraculous signs I have done among them?
- I will disown them and destroy them with a plague. Then I will make you into a nation far greater and mightier than they are!"
- "But what will the Egyptians think when they hear about it?" Moses pleaded with the LORD. "They know full well the power you displayed in rescuing these people from Egypt.
- They will tell this to the inhabitants of this land, who are well aware that you are with this people. They know, LORD, that you have appeared in full view of your people in the pillar of cloud that hovers over them. They know that you go before them in the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night.
- Now if you slaughter all these people, the nations that have heard of your fame will say,
Numbers 16:26
- "Quick!" he told the people. "Get away from the tents of these wicked men, and don't touch anything that belongs to them. If you do, you will be destroyed for their sins."
- So all the people stood back from the tents of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Then Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrances of their tents with their wives and children and little ones.
- And Moses said, "By this you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these things that I have done--for I have not done them on my own.
- If these men die a natural death, then the LORD has not sent me.
- But if the LORD performs a miracle and the ground opens up and swallows them and all their belongings, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have despised the LORD."
2 Chronicles 30:18
- Most of those who came from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun had not purified themselves. But King Hezekiah prayed for them, and they were allowed to eat the Passover meal anyway, even though this was contrary to God's laws. For Hezekiah said, "May the LORD, who is good, pardon those
- who decide to follow the LORD, the God of their ancestors, even though they are not properly cleansed for the ceremony."
- And the LORD listened to Hezekiah's prayer and healed the people.
Exodus 32:10
- Now leave me alone so my anger can blaze against them and destroy them all. Then I will make you, Moses, into a great nation instead of them."
- But Moses pleaded with the LORD his God not to do it. "O LORD!" he exclaimed. "Why are you so angry with your own people whom you brought from the land of Egypt with such great power and mighty acts?
- The Egyptians will say, `God tricked them into coming to the mountains so he could kill them and wipe them from the face of the earth.' Turn away from your fierce anger. Change your mind about this terrible disaster you are planning against your people!
- Remember your covenant with your servants--Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You swore by your own self, `I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven. Yes, I will give them all of this land that I have promised to your descendants, and they will possess it forever.'"
- So the LORD withdrew his threat and didn't bring against his people the disaster he had threatened.
Ezekiel 22:30
- "I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn't have to destroy the land, but I found no one.
Deuteronomy 9:18
- Then for forty days and nights I lay prostrate before the LORD, neither eating bread nor drinking water. I did this because you had sinned by doing what the LORD hated, thus making him very angry.
- How I feared for you, for the LORD was ready to destroy you. But again he listened to me.
- The LORD was so angry with Aaron that he wanted to destroy him. But I prayed for Aaron, and the LORD spared him.
Exodus 32:31
- So Moses returned to the LORD and said, "Alas, these people have committed a terrible sin. They have made gods of gold for themselves.
- But now, please forgive their sin--and if not, then blot me out of the record you are keeping."
Psalms 106:23
- So he declared he would destroy them. But Moses, his chosen one, stepped between the LORD and the people. He begged him to turn from his anger and not destroy them.
Amos 7:1
- The Sovereign LORD showed me a vision. I saw him preparing to send a vast swarm of locusts over the land. This was after the king's share had been harvested from the fields and as the main crop was coming up.
- In my vision the locusts ate everything in sight that was green. Then I said, "O Sovereign LORD, please forgive your people! Unless you relent, Israel will not survive, for we are only a small nation."
- So the LORD relented and did not fulfill the vision. "I won't do it," he said.
Job 42:7
- After the LORD had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite: "I am angry with you and with your two friends, for you have not been right in what you said about me, as my servant Job was.
- Now take seven young bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer on your behalf. I will not treat you as you deserve, for you have not been right in what you said about me, as my servant Job was."
- So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite did as the LORD commanded them, and the LORD accepted Job's prayer.
2 Timothy 4:14
- Alexander the coppersmith has done me much harm, but the Lord will judge him for what he has done.