Ezekiel 20:18
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18 “And I said to (A)their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk (B)in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, (C)nor defile yourselves with their idols.
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1 Peter 1:18
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18 knowing that you (A)were ransomed from (B)the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
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Zechariah 1:2-4
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2 (A)“The Lord was very angry with your fathers. 3 Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: (B)Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and (C)I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. 4 (D)Do not be like your fathers, (E)to whom the former prophets cried out, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (F)Return from your evil ways and from your evil deeds.’ But (G)they did not hear or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
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Ezekiel 20:7
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7 And I said to them, (A)‘Cast away the detestable things (B)your eyes feast on, every one of you, and do not defile yourselves with (C)the idols of Egypt; (D)I am the Lord your God.’
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Deuteronomy 4:3-6
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3 Your eyes have seen what the Lord did (A)at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor. 4 But you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today. 5 See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 6 (B)Keep them and do them, for (C)that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
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Acts 7:51
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51 (A)“You stiff-necked people, (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. (C)As your fathers did, so do you.
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Luke 11:47-48
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47 (A)Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. 48 (B)So you are witnesses and you (C)consent to the deeds of (D)your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.
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Jeremiah 3:9
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9 Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with (A)stone and tree.
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Jeremiah 2:7
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7 (A)And I brought you into a plentiful land
to enjoy its fruits and its good things.
But when you came in, (B)you defiled my land
and made my heritage an abomination.
Psalm 78:6-8
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6 that (A)the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
7 so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget (B)the works of God,
but (C)keep his commandments;
8 and that they should not be (D)like their fathers,
(E)a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation (F)whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Numbers 32:13-15
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13 And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them (A)wander in the wilderness forty years, until (B)all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone. 14 And behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel! 15 For if you (C)turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”
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Numbers 14:32-33
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32 But as for you, (A)your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children (B)shall be shepherds in the wilderness (C)forty years and shall (D)suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.
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