Excuses you may have given for not accepting Jesus:
* I am a good person anyway, why do I need Jesus?
Romans 3:12 - "There is none that doeth good, no not one."
Romans 3:23 - "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God"
Isaiah 64:6 - "We are all as an unclean thing, all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags"
* I am too bad to be saved
Matthew 9:13 - "I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance"
1 Timothy 1:15 - "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners"
* There are too many hypocrites in the church
Romans 14:12 - "So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God"
* I can't live that kind of life
Philippians 4:13 - "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me"
* I go to church, isn't that good enough?
Ephesians 2:8,9 - "for by grace are ye saved through faith... it is the gift of God; not of works, lest any man should boast.
Titus 3:5 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy he saved us
* I need to get some things straightened out before I get saved.
Proverbs 27:1 - "Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
2 Corinthians 6:2 - "Now is the day of salvation"
1 John 1:9
- "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
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