Ezekiel 5:6
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6 She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.’
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Jeremiah 11:10
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10 They have turned back to (A)the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.”
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Ezekiel 16:47-48
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47 You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, (A)you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
48 “As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither (B)your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.
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Zechariah 7:11
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11 “But they refused to heed, (A)shrugged[a] their shoulders, and (B)stopped[b] their ears so that they could not hear.
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- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. gave a stubborn or rebellious shoulder
- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. made their ears heavy
Nehemiah 9:16-17
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16 “But(A) they and our fathers acted [a]proudly,
(B)Hardened[b] their necks,
And did not heed Your commandments.
17 They refused to obey,
And (C)they were not mindful of Your wonders
That You did among them.
But they hardened their necks,
And [c]in their rebellion
They appointed (D)a leader
To return to their bondage.
But You are God,
Ready to pardon,
(E)Gracious and merciful,
Slow to anger,
Abundant in kindness,
And did not forsake them.
Footnotes
- Nehemiah 9:16 presumptuously
- Nehemiah 9:16 Stiffened their necks, became stubborn
- Nehemiah 9:17 So with MT, Vg.; LXX in Egypt
2 Kings 17:8-20
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8 and (A)had walked in the statutes of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made. 9 Also the children of Israel secretly did against the Lord their God things that were not right, and they built for themselves [a]high places in all their cities, (B)from watchtower to fortified city. 10 (C)They set up for themselves sacred pillars and (D)wooden images[b] (E)on every high hill and under every green tree. 11 There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the Lord had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger, 12 for they served idols, (F)of which the Lord had said to them, (G)“You shall not do this thing.”
13 Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His (H)prophets, (I)every seer, saying, (J)“Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.” 14 Nevertheless they would not hear, but (K)stiffened their necks, like the necks of their fathers, who (L)did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 And they (M)rejected His statutes (N)and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed (O)idols, (P)became idolaters, and went after the nations who were all around them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them that they should (Q)not do like them. 16 So they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, (R)made for themselves a molded image and two calves, (S)made a wooden image and worshiped all the (T)host of heaven, (U)and served Baal. 17 (V)And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, (W)practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and (X)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them from His sight; there was none left (Y)but the tribe of Judah alone.
19 Also (Z)Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. 20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel, afflicted them, and (AA)delivered them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them from His (AB)sight.
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- 2 Kings 17:9 Places for pagan worship
- 2 Kings 17:10 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
Jeremiah 8:5
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5 Why has this people (A)slidden back,
Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding?
(B)They hold fast to deceit,
(C)They refuse to return.
Psalm 78:10
New King James Version
10 (A)They did not keep the covenant of God;
They refused to walk in His law,
Jude 4
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4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord [a]God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
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- Jude 1:4 NU omits God
1 Corinthians 5:1
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Immorality Defiles the Church
5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even [a]named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s (A)wife!
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- 1 Corinthians 5:1 NU omits named
Romans 1:23-25
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23 and changed the glory of the (A)incorruptible (B)God into an image made like [a]corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
24 (C)Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, (D)to dishonor their bodies (E)among themselves, 25 who exchanged (F)the truth of God (G)for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
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- Romans 1:23 perishable
Ezekiel 16:51
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51 “Samaria did not commit (A)half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and (B)have justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done.
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Jeremiah 9:6
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6 Your dwelling place is in the midst of deceit;
Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 5:3
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3 O Lord, are not (A)Your eyes on the truth?
You have (B)stricken them,
But they have not grieved;
You have consumed them,
But (C)they have refused to receive correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to return.
Psalm 106:20
New King James Version
20 Thus (A)they changed their glory
Into the image of an ox that eats grass.
Deuteronomy 32:15-21
New King James Version
15 “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;
(A)You grew fat, you grew thick,
You are obese!
Then he (B)forsook God who (C)made him,
And scornfully esteemed the (D)Rock of his salvation.
16 (E)They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods;
With [a]abominations they provoked Him to anger.
17 (F)They sacrificed to demons, not to God,
To gods they did not know,
To new gods, new arrivals
That your fathers did not fear.
18 (G)Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful,
And have (H)forgotten the God who fathered you.
19 “And(I) when the Lord saw it, He spurned them,
Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.
20 And He said: ‘I will hide My face from them,
I will see what their end will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
(J)Children in whom is no faith.
21 (K)They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;
They have moved Me to anger (L)by their [b]foolish idols.
But (M)I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;
I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:16 detestable acts
- Deuteronomy 32:21 foolishness, lit. vanities
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