I was referring to this verse...
1 Timothy 2:4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Yes and that text also says pray for all man, but like with everything the Bible also says the opposite.
Matthew 13
And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
11 He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the [
a]mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 12 For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. 13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. 14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:
‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,
And seeing you will see and not perceive;
15 For the hearts of this people have grown dull.
Their ears are hard of hearing,
And their eyes they have closed,
Lest they should see with
their eyes and hear with
their ears,
Lest they should understand with
their hearts and turn,
So that I [
b]should heal them.’
Isaiah 65
I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people,
Who walk in a way
that is not good,
According to their own thoughts;
3 A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face;
Who sacrifice in gardens,
And burn incense on altars of brick;
4 Who sit among the graves,
And spend the night in the tombs;
Who eat swine’s flesh,
And the broth of [
a]abominable things is
in their vessels;
5 Who say, ‘Keep to yourself,
Do not come near me,
For I am holier than you!’
These [
b]
are smoke in My nostrils,
A fire that burns all the day.
6 “Behold,
it is written before Me:
I will not keep silence, but will repay—
Even repay into their bosom—
7 Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together,”
Says the Lord,
“Who have burned incense on the mountains
And blasphemed Me on the hills;
Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”
8 Thus says the Lord:
“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
And
one says, ‘Do not destroy it,
For a blessing
is in it,’
So will I do for My servants’ sake,
That I may not destroy them all.
9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,
And from Judah an heir of My mountains;
My elect shall inherit it,
And My servants shall dwell there.
10 Sharon shall be a fold of flocks,
And the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
For My people who have sought Me.
11 “But you
are those who forsake the Lord,
Who forget My holy mountain,
Who prepare a table for [
c]Gad,
And who furnish a drink offering for [
d]Meni.
12 Therefore I will number you for the sword,
And you shall all bow down to the slaughter;
Because, when I called, you did not answer;
When I spoke, you did not hear,
But did evil before My eyes,
And chose
that in which I do not delight.”
Oh it was John, not James:
1 John 5:16-17
16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin
which does not
lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not
leading to death. There is sin
leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that.
