Matthew 23:20
He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.
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Matthew 23:20
He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.
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Genesis 14:22
But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath to the Lord, the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth,
Genesis 21:23
Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.
Matthew 22:32
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.
Hebrews 6:13
For when God made his oath to Abraham, because there was no greater oath, he made it by himself,
Hebrews 6:16
For men at all times make their oaths by what is greater; and any argument is ended by the decision of the oath.
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Leviticus 19:12
And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.
Isaiah 48:1
Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.
Jeremiah 23:10
For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.
Ezekiel 17:13
And he took one of the sons of the king and made an agreement with him; and he put him under an oath, and took away the great men of the land:
Ezekiel 17:14
So that the kingdom might be made low with no power of lifting itself up, but might keep his agreement to be his servants.
Ezekiel 17:15
But he went against his authority in sending representatives to Egypt to get from them horses and a great army. Will he do well? will he be safe who does such things? if the agreement is broken will he be safe?
Ezekiel 17:16
By my life, says the Lord, truly in the place of the king who made him king, whose oath he put on one side and let his agreement with him be broken, even in Babylon he will come to his death.
Zechariah 5:3
Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.
Zechariah 5:4
And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.
Zechariah 8:17
Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
1 Timothy 1:9
With the knowledge that the law is made, not for the upright man, but for those who have no respect for law and order, for evil men and sinners, for the unholy and those who have no religion, for those who put their fathers or mothers to death, for takers of life,
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Deuteronomy 6:13
Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.
Amos 8:14
Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.
Zephaniah 1:5
And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,
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1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.
Proverbs 1:30
They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
Proverbs 1:31
So the fruit of their way will be their food, and with the designs of their hearts they will be made full.
Proverbs 1:32
For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.
Isaiah 28:7
And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.
Isaiah 29:10
For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.
Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.
Isaiah 56:12
Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.
Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.
Malachi 2:7
For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.
Malachi 2:9
And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
1 Timothy 6:5
Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.
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Genesis 42:7
And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.
Genesis 42:12
And he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor the land is.
Genesis 42:15
But in this way will you be put to the test: by the life of Pharaoh, you will not go away from this place till your youngest brother comes here.
Genesis 42:16
Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret.
Genesis 42:30
The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose.
1 Samuel 1:26
And she said, O my lord, as your soul is living, my lord, I am that woman who was making a prayer to the Lord here by your side:
1 Samuel 17:55
And when Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, Abner, whose son is this young man? And Abner said, On your life, O king, I have no idea.
1 Samuel 20:3
But David took his oath again and said, Your father sees that I am dear to you; so he says to himself, Let Jonathan have no idea of this, for it will be a grief to him; but as the Lord is living, and as your soul is living, there is only a step between me and death.
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1 Kings 8:31
If a man does wrong to his neighbour, and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:
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Proverbs 15:14
The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.
Jeremiah 14:13
Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.
Jeremiah 14:14
Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.
Lamentations 2:14
The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.
Ezekiel 13:3
This is what the Lord has said: A curse on the foolish prophets who go after the spirit which is in them and have seen nothing!
Hosea 9:8
There is great hate against the watchman of Ephraim, the people of my God; as for the prophet, there is a net in all his ways, and hate in the house of his God.
Zechariah 11:15
And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.
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Proverbs 15:28
The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.
Proverbs 16:22
Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour.
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Isaiah 1:3
Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.
Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.
Isaiah 5:13
For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.
Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
Jeremiah 8:7
Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.
Luke 19:44
And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.
John 3:19
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
John 3:20
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
Romans 1:28
And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
2 Peter 3:5
But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;
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Isaiah 31:1
Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;
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2 Chronicles 6:18
But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:
Isaiah 57:15
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Isaiah 66:1
The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?
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Lamentations 5:16
The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
Ezekiel 16:23
And it came about, after all your evil-doing, says the Lord,
Hosea 7:13
May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.
Hosea 9:12
Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.
Revelation 8:13
And there came to my ears the cry of an eagle in flight in the middle of heaven, saying with a great voice, Trouble, trouble, trouble, to all on the earth, because of the other voices of the horns of the three angels, whose sounding is still to come.
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Haggai 2:7
And I will make a shaking of all the nations, and the desired things of all nations will come: and I will make this house full of my glory, says the Lord of armies.
Haggai 2:8
The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the Lord of armies.
Haggai 2:9
The second glory of this house will be greater than the first, says the Lord of armies: and in this place I will give peace, says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 3:1
See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.
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Matthew 5:19
Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.
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Matthew 5:20
For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.
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Matthew 12:6
But I say to you that a greater thing than the Temple is here.
John 2:19
And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.
John 2:20
The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!
John 2:21
But his words were about that holy building which was his body.
Ephesians 2:20
Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,
Ephesians 2:21
In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;
Ephesians 2:22
In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.
Colossians 2:9
For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,
1 Peter 2:4
To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;
1 Peter 2:5
You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
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Matthew 12:41
The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: because they were turned from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; and now a greater than Jonah is here.
Matthew 12:42
The queen of the South will come up in the day of judging and give her decision against this generation: for she came from the ends of the earth to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon; and now a greater than Solomon is here.
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Matthew 7:5
You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.
Matthew 22:18
But Jesus saw their trick and said, Oh false ones, why are you attempting to put me in the wrong?
Luke 12:56
O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?
Luke 13:15
But the Lord gave him an answer and said, O you false men! do you not, every one of you, on the Sabbath, let loose his ox and his ass and take it to the water?
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Matthew 23:30
If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.
Matthew 23:31
So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.
Matthew 23:32
Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.
Matthew 23:33
You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?
Matthew 23:34
For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;
Matthew 23:35
So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.
Matthew 23:36
Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.
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Matthew 15:1
Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,
Matthew 16:12
Then they saw that it was not the leaven of bread which he had in mind, but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Mark 1:22
And they were full of wonder at his teaching, because he gave it as one having authority, and not like the scribes.
Mark 7:3
Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them:
Mark 7:4
And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.
Mark 7:5
And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?
Mark 7:12
You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother;
Mark 7:13
Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.
Luke 5:30
And the Pharisees and their scribes made protests against his disciples, saying, Why do you take food and drink with tax-farmers and sinners?
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Isaiah 29:13
And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;
Matthew 15:3
And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?
Matthew 15:7
You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,
Matthew 15:8
These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
Mark 7:6
And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Mark 7:7
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
Mark 7:8
For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.
Mark 7:9
And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.
Mark 7:10
For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:
Mark 7:11
But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,
Luke 11:40
O you foolish ones! did not he who made the outside in the same way make the inside?
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Acts 23:8
For the Sadducees say that there is no coming back from the dead, and no angels or spirits: but the Pharisees have belief in all these.
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Acts 23:9
And there was a great outcry: and some of the scribes on the side of the Pharisees got up and took part in the discussion, saying, We see no evil in this man: what if he has had a revelation from an angel or a spirit?
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Isaiah 29:14
For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.
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?
Matthew 21:27
And they made answer and said, We have no idea. Then he said to them, And I will not say to you by what authority I do these things.
John 3:9
And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?
John 3:10
And Jesus, answering, said, Are you the teacher of Israel and have no knowledge of these things?
John 9:40
These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?
John 9:41
Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.
Romans 1:22
Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,
Romans 2:19
In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,
1 Timothy 1:7
Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.
2 Timothy 3:9
But they will go no farther: for their foolish behaviour will be clear to all men, as theirs was in the end.
2 Timothy 3:13
Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.
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Romans 3:8
Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.
Romans 6:1
What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?
Romans 6:15
What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.
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2 Timothy 3:7
Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.
2 Peter 2:12
But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;
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1 Corinthians 10:18
See Israel after the flesh: do not those who take as food the offerings of the altar take a part in the altar?
Revelation 2:14
But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.
Revelation 2:15
And you have those who keep the teaching of the Nicolaitans.
Revelation 2:20
But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.
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