Don't Ask Your Minister Bible Verses:
He Won't Understand Them Either
(All Capitalizations Mine for Emphasis)

Reincarnation

"And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: NEITHER CAN THEY DIE ANY MORE: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection." (Luke 20:34-36)

"Him that overcometh will I make pillar in the temple of my God, AND HE SHALL GO NO MORE OUT..." (Revelation 3:12)

"And if ye will receive it, THIS IS ELIAS, which was for to come." (Matt 11:14)

"Whom say the people that I am? They answering said, John the Baptist; but some say, ELIAS; AND OTHERS SAY, THAT ONE OF THE OLD PROPHETS IS RISEN AGAIN." (Luke 9:20-21)

"No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved." (Matt 9: 16,17)

"If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee; thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands." (Job 14:14,15)

"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God." (John 3:3)

"Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.'" (Jer 1,4-5)

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath CHOSEN US in him BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, [cf. Job 38:4,12,21] that we should be holy and blameless before him." (Eph 1:3-4)

"So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin amoung you, let him first cast a stone at her. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground." (John 8:7-8)

"Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him." (2 Corinthians 5:9)

Also see: Ecclesiastes 1:7,9,10,11; Ecclesiastes 3:15; Jeremiah 18:1,6; Jeremiah 32:27; Lamentations 3:31; Lamentations 5:21.

Mystery/Esoteric/Secrecy

"Tell the vision to no man, 'until the Son of man be risen from the dead' (or 'until I come again')." (Matt 17:9)

"Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." (Matt 28:20)

"I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now." (John 16:12)

"When the Holy Spirit is come, he will guide you into all truth." (John 16:13)

"Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing." (Hebrews: 5:11)

"And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly now." (Hebrews 9:5)

"As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction." (2 Peter 3:16)

"I have fed you with milk, and not meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able." (I Cor 3:2)

"For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For everyone that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe." (Heb 5:12,13)

"These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father." (John 16:25)

"Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world." (1 John 4:1)

"For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:" (Colossians 1:16)

"I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven." (2 Corinthians 12:2)

Strife

"These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also!" (Acts 17:6)

"The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother." (Luke 12:53).

Eschatology

"Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?" (Matt 7:22)

"And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." (Matt 7:23)

"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, will save it." (Luke 9:24)

"Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it." (Luke 17:33)

"Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadth unto life, and few there be that find it." (Matt 7:14)

"What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matt 16:26)

"And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it." (1 Corinthians 12:26)

"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9)

"And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 18:3)

"Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God." (Matthew 22:29)

Judgement

"I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." (Rev 3:15-16)

"And he commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that he is the one ordained by God to be judge of the living and the dead." (Acts 10:42)

"For the Son of man is come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay every man for what he has done." (Matt 16:27)

"You see that a man is justified by works and not faith alone." (James 2:24)

"But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to a judge who is God of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect." (Heb 12:22-23)

"But they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. For this is why the gospel was preached even to the dead, that though judged in the flesh like men, they might live in the spirit like God." (I Peter 4:5,6)

"And all the churches shall know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you as your works deserve." (Rev 2:23)

"Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay everyone for what he has done." (Rev 22:12)

"...on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus." (Rom 2:16)

"I charge you in the presence of God and of Chist Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom." (2 Tim 4:1)

"And as 'it is appointed unto men once to die' (Greek: 'it is appointed once men die'), but after that the judgement:" (Heb 9:27)

"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." (Matt 5:17)

"And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world." (John 12:47)

Grace

"That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." (Eph 2:7)

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