16.
"Who is the image of the invisible God...."
(Col. 1:15)
"Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible...."
(1 Tim. 1:17)
versus
"...for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved"
(Gen. 32:30),
"And the Lord spoke unto Moses face to face...."
(Ex. 33:11),
"...for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts"
(Isa. 6:5), and (Judges 13:22).
17.
"That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie,...."
(Heb. 6:18),
"In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie...."
(Titus 1:2)
versus
"Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets...."
(1 Kings 22:23, 2 Chron. 18:22),
"for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie"
(2 Thess. 2:11),
"O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived...."
(Jer. 20:7),
"if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him...."
(Ezek. 14:9),
"Then said I, ah Lord God! surely thou hast greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth unto the soul" (Jer. 4:10) and (Jer. 15:18, Gen. 2:17, 5:5).
18.
"Moreover, Brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And all were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea"
(1 Cor. 10:1-2)
versus
"And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel...."
(Ex. 14:19-20)
"the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharoah that came into the sea after them.... But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea...."
(Ex. 14:28-29).
19.
"...so that no human being might boast in the presence of God"
(1 Cor. 1:29),
"Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger and not thine own lips"
(Prov. 27:2) and (Psalm 94:4)
versus
"What I am saying I say not with the Lord's authority but as a fool, in this boastful confidence; since many boast of worldly things, I too will boast"
(2 Cor. 11:17-18),
"You have made me act like a fool--boasting like this.... There isn't a single thing these other marvelous fellows have that I don't have too...."
(2 Cor. 12:11)
"...but I laboured more abundantly than they all...."
(1 Cor. 15:10).
20.
"For our God is a consuming fire"
(Heb. 12:29)
"In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ...."
(2 Thess 1:8) and (Heb. 10:27)
versus
"The Lord is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy...and his tender mercies are over all his works"
(Psalms 145:8-9)
21.
"...and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour"
(1 Cor. 3:8)
"God will render to every man according to his deeds...."
(Rom. 2:6) and (2 Thess. 3:10)
versus
"And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat"
(Joshua 24:13).