The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
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Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
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Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool.
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Colossians 2:4:
I tell you this so that no one may deceive you by fine-sounding arguments.
(NIV)
I say this in order that no one may mislead and delude you by plausible and persuasive and attractive arguments and beguiling speech.
(AMP)
And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
(KJV)
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Galatians 6:7:
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. People reap what they sow.
(NIV)
Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap.
(AMP)
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
(KJV)
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It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.
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Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in
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Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.
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Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.
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1 John 1:8:
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
(NIV)
If we say we have no sin [refusing to admit that we are sinners], we delude and lead ourselves astray, and the Truth [which the Gospel presents] is not in us [does not dwell in our hearts].
(AMP)
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
(KJV)
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