Isaiah 44:20
As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
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Isaiah 44:20
As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
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Deuteronomy 4:28
There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.
Deuteronomy 32:21
They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,
2 Kings 22:17
Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the work of their hands; so my wrath will be on fire against this place, and will not be put out.
Psalms 97:7
Shamed be all those who give worship to images, and take pride in false gods; give him worship, all you gods.
Psalms 135:15
The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Psalms 135:16
They have mouths, but no voice, they have eyes, but they do not see;
Isaiah 37:19
And have given their gods to the fire: for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
Isaiah 44:24
The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?
Jeremiah 10:3
For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.
Jeremiah 10:9
Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.
Jeremiah 51:18
They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
Hosea 8:5
I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?
Habakkuk 2:20
But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him.
1 Corinthians 8:4
So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.
1 Corinthians 12:2
You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.
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Deuteronomy 32:32
For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:
Psalms 37:3
Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
Hate had I for all my work which I had done, because the man who comes after me will have its fruits.
Isaiah 8:21
And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;
Habakkuk 2:13
See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?
John 6:27
Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.
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Judges 17:13
Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.
Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
Romans 10:2
For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.
Romans 10:3
Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
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Job 13:12
Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.
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Job 15:2
Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?
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Psalms 78:36
But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;
Psalms 119:29
Take from me every false way; and in mercy give me your law.
Hosea 7:16
They have gone to what is of no value; they are like a false bow; their captains will come to destruction by the sword, and their ruler by my wrath; for this, the land of Egypt will make sport of them.
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Psalms 78:57
Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.
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Psalms 102:9
I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
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Proverbs 23:2
And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.
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Proverbs 23:3
Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
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Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:
Romans 7:11
For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.
James 1:14
But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.
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Deuteronomy 32:29
If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
Psalms 14:2
The Lord was looking down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who had wisdom, searching after God.
Psalms 36:2
For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.
Psalms 92:6
A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.
Psalms 94:8
Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?
Isaiah 6:10
Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
Isaiah 42:19
Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord's servant?
Isaiah 42:20
Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.
Jeremiah 5:21
Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
Jeremiah 9:6
There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.
Hosea 4:6
Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.
Hosea 5:4
Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.
John 8:43
Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.
John 12:40
He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.
Romans 8:7
Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:
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Judges 18:24
And he said, You have taken my gods which I made, and my priest, and have gone away; what is there for me now? Why then do you say to me, What is your trouble?
1 Kings 22:22
And the Lord said, How? And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.
1 Kings 22:23
And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has said evil against you.
Job 31:27
A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;
Isaiah 28:15
Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:
Isaiah 66:4
So I will go after trouble for them, and will send on them what they are fearing: because no one made answer to my voice, or gave ear to my word; but they did what was evil in my eyes, going after that in which I took no pleasure.
Ezekiel 14:4
For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;
Amos 2:4
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.
Matthew 24:24
For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.
Luke 11:21
When the strong man armed keeps watch over his house, then his goods are safe:
2 Thessalonians 2:12
So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.
Revelation 17:2
With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.
Revelation 20:3
And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.
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1 Kings 18:26
So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made.
1 Chronicles 16:26
For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.
Isaiah 44:8
Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?
Isaiah 46:5
Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?
Jeremiah 10:10
But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.
Jeremiah 10:11
This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.
Jeremiah 10:12
He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.
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Jeremiah 13:23
Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.
John 5:44
How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
John 6:44
No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.
John 12:39
For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,
Romans 11:8
As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.
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Proverbs 13:20
Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
Luke 21:8
And he said, Take care that you are not tricked: for a number of people will come in my name, saying, I am he; and, The time is near: do not go after them.
1 Corinthians 1:21
For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
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Isaiah 49:9
Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.
Ephesians 5:8
For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
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