Romans 1:25
Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.
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Romans 1:25
Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.
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Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
Exodus 4:21
And the Lord said to Moses, When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have given you power to do: but I will make his heart hard and he will not let the people go.
Exodus 7:13
But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.
Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God made his spirit hard and his heart strong, so that he might give him up into your hands as at this day.
Joshua 11:20
For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
Isaiah 29:16
You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?
Isaiah 45:9
Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.
Jeremiah 4:10
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! your words were not true when you said to this people and to Jerusalem, You will have peace; when the sword has come even to the soul.
Romans 9:19
But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?
Romans 9:20
But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?
Romans 9:21
Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?
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Genesis 3:4
And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:
Genesis 3:5
For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.
Psalms 14:1
To the chief music-maker. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.
Zechariah 3:4
And he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes;
1 Corinthians 6:10
Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:11
And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
Ephesians 4:22
That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;
Ephesians 5:3
But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;
Ephesians 5:5
Being certain of this, that no man who gives way to the passions of the flesh, no unclean person, or one who has desire for the property of others, or who gives worship to images, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Revelation 21:8
But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.
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Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.
Psalms 51:17
The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
Matthew 5:3
Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
Matthew 6:24
No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
Matthew 10:37
He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.
Romans 8:5
For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.
Romans 8:6
For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace:
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:
Romans 8:8
So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.
1 Corinthians 2:14
For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.
1 John 2:15
Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:16
Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
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Genesis 19:5
And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.
Genesis 19:7
And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.
Deuteronomy 23:17
No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.
Judges 19:22
While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.
1 Kings 14:24
And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.
1 Kings 15:12
Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.
1 Kings 22:46
He put an end to the rest of those who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, all those who were still in the land in the time of his father Asa.
2 Kings 23:7
And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.
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Genesis 39:3
And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well.
Zechariah 8:23
This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.
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Leviticus 13:47
And any clothing of wool or of linen in which is the mark of the disease;
Judges 1:23
So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz.)
Isaiah 59:6
Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.
Ezekiel 16:16
And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.
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Leviticus 26:23
And if by these things you will not be turned to me, but still go against me;
Leviticus 26:24
Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins.
Psalms 18:26
He who is holy will see that you are holy; but to the man whose way is not straight you will be a hard judge.
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Deuteronomy 2:7
For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.
Deuteronomy 4:27
And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.
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 28:36
And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.
Ezekiel 14:11
So that the children of Israel may no longer go wandering away from me, or make themselves unclean with all their wrongdoing; but they will be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.
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Deuteronomy 12:30
After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.
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Deuteronomy 12:31
Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
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Judges 10:14
Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.
2 Kings 3:13
But Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father and your mother. And the king of Israel said, No; for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them up into the hands of Moab.
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Judges 16:23
And the chiefs of the Philistines came together to make a great offering to Dagon their god, and to be glad; for they said, Our god has given into our hands Samson our hater.
1 Samuel 5:2
They took the ark of God into the house of Dagon and put it by the side of Dagon.
1 Samuel 5:3
And when the people of Ashdod got up early on the morning after, they saw that Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon up and put him in his place again.
1 Samuel 5:4
And when they got up early on the morning after, Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord; and his head and his hands were broken off on the doorstep; only the base was in its place.
1 Samuel 5:5
So to this day no priest of Dagon, or any who come into Dagon's house, will put his foot on the doorstep of the house of Dagon in Ashdod.
Isaiah 21:9
See, here come war-carriages with men, horsemen by twos: and in answer he said, Babylon is made low, is made low, and all her images are broken on the earth.
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2 Samuel 12:10
So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.
2 Samuel 12:11
The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.
2 Samuel 12:12
You did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and in the light of the sun.
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2 Kings 17:16
And turning their backs on all the orders which the Lord had given them, they made for themselves images of metal, and the image of Asherah, worshipping all the stars of heaven and becoming servants to Baal.
2 Kings 21:3
He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.
Jeremiah 8:2
And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.
Jeremiah 19:13
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.
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Nehemiah 9:5
Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, Get up and give praise to the Lord your God for ever and ever. Praise be to your great name which is lifted up high over all blessing and praise.
Psalms 41:13
May the Lord God of Israel be praised, through eternal days and for ever. So be it. So be it.
Jeremiah 13:11
For as a band goes tightly round a man's body, so I made all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah tightly united to me; so that they might be a people for me and a name and a praise and a glory: but they would not give ear.
Luke 1:68
Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has come to his people and made them free,
2 Corinthians 8:16
But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.
Ephesians 3:20
Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,
Ephesians 3:21
To him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for ever and ever. So be it.
1 Peter 4:11
If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.
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Job 24:13
Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.
Job 24:14
He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.
Job 24:15
And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;
Job 24:16
In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
Job 24:17
For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.
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Psalms 18:25
On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;
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Exodus 20:3
You are to have no other gods but me.
Exodus 20:7
You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord
Leviticus 26:1
Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 4:12
And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire: the sound of his words came to your ears but you saw no form; there was nothing but a voice.
Psalms 33:6
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms 135:17
They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.
Isaiah 42:8
I am the Lord; that is my name: I will not give my glory to another, or my praise to pictured images.
Daniel 5:23
But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
Hosea 13:2
And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.
Hosea 13:4
But I am the Lord your God, from the land of Egypt; you have knowledge of no other God and there is no saviour but me.
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 11:9
And the man was not made for the woman, but the woman for the man.
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Psalms 145:1
A Song of praise. Of David. Let me give glory to you, O God, my King; and blessing to your name for ever and ever.
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Psalms 145:2
Every day will I give you blessing, praising your name for ever and ever.
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Psalms 148:2
Give praise to him, all you his angels: give praise to him, all his armies.
Psalms 148:3
Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light.
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Isaiah 19:11
The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?
Isaiah 19:12
Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt.
Isaiah 19:13
The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way.
Isaiah 44:25
Who makes the signs of those who give word of the future come to nothing, so that those who have knowledge of secret arts go off their heads; turning the wise men back, and making their knowledge foolish:
Isaiah 44:28
Who says of Cyrus, He will take care of my sheep, and will do all my pleasure: who says of Jerusalem, I will give the word for your building; and of the Temple, Your bases will be put in place.
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Isaiah 29:9
Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.
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 29:11
And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut:
Isaiah 29:12
And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.
John 12:41
(Isaiah said these words because he saw his glory. His words were about him.)
John 12:42
However, a number even of the rulers had belief in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not say so openly for fear that they might be shut out from the Synagogue:
John 12:43
For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.
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Psalms 109:17
As he took pleasure in cursing, so let it come on him; and as he had no delight in blessing, let it be far from him.
Proverbs 3:34
He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.
Isaiah 63:17
O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.
Matthew 13:14
And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
Matthew 13:15
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
John 12:39
For this reason they were unable to have belief, because Isaiah said again,
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.
Acts 28:26
Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
Acts 28:27
For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
Acts 28:28
Be certain, then, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will give hearing.
Romans 11:7
What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
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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Ezekiel 14:7
When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself:
Ezekiel 14:8
And my face will be turned against that man, and I will make him a sign and a common saying, cutting him off from among my people; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
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Ezekiel 28:17
Your heart was lifted up because you were beautiful, you made your wisdom evil through your sin: I have sent you down, even to the earth; I have made you low before kings, so that they may see you.
1 Corinthians 11:14
Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?
Ephesians 2:15
Having in his flesh put an end to that which made the division between us, even the law with its rules and orders, so that he might make in himself, of the two, one new man, so making peace;
Ephesians 3:11
Which is seen in his eternal purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord:
2 Peter 2:2
And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.
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Job 31:9
If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;
Job 31:10
Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.
Hosea 4:13
They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.
Amos 7:17
So this is what the Lord has said: Your wife will be a loose woman in the town, and your sons and your daughters will be put to the sword, and your land will be cut up into parts by a line; and you yourself will come to your end in an unclean land, and Israel will certainly be taken away a prisoner out of his land.
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1 Kings 18:24
And do you make prayers to your god, and I will make a prayer to the Lord: and it will be clear that the one who gives an answer by fire is God. And all the people in answer said, It is well said.
Isaiah 46:8
Keep this in mind and be shamed; let it come back to your memory, you sinners.
Hosea 11:6
And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.
Jonah 2:8
The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.
John 2:8
Then he said to them, Now take some, and give it to the master of the feast. So they took it to him.
Acts 17:16
Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was troubled, for he saw all the town full of images of the gods.
Ephesians 4:6
One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.
Colossians 1:16
For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;
Hebrews 11:3
By faith it is clear to us that the order of events was fixed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made from things which only seem to be.
Revelation 4:11
It is right, our Lord and our God, for you to have glory and honour and power: because by you were all things made, and by your desire they came into being.
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Amos 4:4
Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:
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Amos 4:5
Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.
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Ezekiel 16:52
And you yourself will be put to shame, in that you have given the decision for your sisters; through your sins, which are more disgusting than theirs, they are more upright than you: truly, you will be shamed and made low, for you have made your sisters seem upright.
Ezekiel 16:63
So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.
Nahum 3:6
I will make you completely disgusting and full of shame, and will put you up to be looked at by all.
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.
Luke 8:32
Now there was a great herd of pigs in that place, getting food on the mountain: and the evil spirits made a request to him that he would let them go into the pigs, and he let them.
Luke 8:33
And the evil spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs: and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the water and came to destruction.
Luke 8:34
And when the men who took care of them saw what had come about, they went quickly and gave news of it in the town and the country.
Luke 15:15
And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food.
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Matthew 2:1
Now when the birth of Jesus took place in Beth-lehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
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Matthew 2:2
Saying, Where is the King of the Jews whose birth has now taken place? We have seen his star in the east and have come to give him worship.
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Matthew 5:18
Truly I say to you, Till heaven and earth come to an end, not the smallest letter or part of a letter will in any way be taken from the law, till all things are done.
Mark 14:61
But he kept quiet and said nothing. Again the high priest questioning him said, Are you the Christ, the son of the Holy One?
Mark 16:5
And when they went in, they saw a young man seated on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were full of wonder.
John 1:51
And he said to him, Truly I say to you all, You will see heaven opening and God's angels going up and coming down on the Son of man.
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Luke 1:45
Happy will she be who had faith that the things which the Lord has said to her will be done.
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Matthew 10:6
But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel,
Mark 16:15
And he said to them, Go into all the world, and give the good news to everyone.
John 6:58
This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.
John 14:16
And I will make prayer to the Father and he will give you another Helper to be with you for ever,
Romans 14:23
But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.
Romans 15:5
Now may the God who gives comfort and strength in waiting make you of the same mind with one another in harmony with Christ Jesus:
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 16:20
And the God of peace will be crushing Satan under your feet before long. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Romans 16:25
Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal,
1 Corinthians 10:16
The cup of blessing which we take, does it not give us a part in the blood of Christ? and is not the broken bread a taking part in the body of Christ?
2 Corinthians 9:9
As it is said in the Writings, He has sent out far and wide, he has given to the poor; his righteousness is for ever.
Colossians 1:23
If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
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Matthew 4:10
Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.
Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.
Matthew 11:27
All things have been given to me by my Father; and no one has knowledge of the Son, but the Father; and no one has knowledge of the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.
Acts 14:16
Who in the past let all nations go in the ways which seemed good to them.
Acts 14:17
But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.
Romans 2:15
Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;
Romans 11:33
O how deep is the wealth of the wisdom and knowledge of God! no one is able to make discovery of his decisions, and his ways may not be searched out.
1 Thessalonians 4:5
Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;
1 Timothy 4:3
Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.
2 Timothy 2:25
Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,
2 Peter 3:3
Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,
1 John 5:20
And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
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John 8:35
Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.
Romans 5:9
Much more, if we now have righteousness by his blood, will salvation from the wrath of God come to us through him.
Romans 6:22
But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.
Colossians 3:6
Because of which the wrath of God comes on those who go against his orders;
Colossians 3:7
Among whom you were living in the past, when you did such things.
1 Thessalonians 4:7
Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.
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Romans 8:20
For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope
Romans 8:21
That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.
Romans 8:22
For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.
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Romans 9:17
For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth.
Romans 9:18
So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.
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Romans 9:31
But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.
Romans 9:32
Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;
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Psalms 147:20
He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
Proverbs 14:6
The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.
Proverbs 26:12
Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
Isaiah 8:20
Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ...If they do not say such things. ...For him there is no dawn. ...
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:
Acts 17:30
Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:
Romans 3:7
But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?
1 Corinthians 1:19
As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge.
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 8:2
If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;
Colossians 2:18
Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,
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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 106:20
And their glory was changed into the image of an ox, whose food is grass.
Psalms 135:18
Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.
Isaiah 44:17
And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his pictured image: he goes down on his face before it, giving worship to it, and making prayer to it, saying, Be my saviour; for you are my god.
Isaiah 44:18
They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.
Isaiah 44:19
And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?
Isaiah 45:20
Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.
Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.
Hosea 2:8
For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.
1 Corinthians 8:6
There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.
Hebrews 12:29
For our God is an all-burning fire.
Revelation 10:6
And took his oath by him who is living for ever and ever, who made the heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, that there would be no more waiting:
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Acts 7:7
And I will be the judge, said God, of that nation which made them servants: and after that, they will come out and give me worship in this place.
Acts 24:14
But this I will say openly to you, that I do give worship to the God of our fathers after that Way, which to them is not the true religion: but I have belief in all the things which are in the law and in the books of the prophets:
Acts 26:7
For the effecting of which our twelve tribes have been working and waiting night and day with all their hearts. And in connection with this hope I am attacked by the Jews, O king!
Acts 27:23
For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am,
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
2 Timothy 1:3
I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day
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1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses, with God, how holy and upright and free from all evil was our way of life among you who have faith;
1 Thessalonians 2:11
Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,
1 Thessalonians 2:12
So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.
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1 Timothy 6:15
Which at the right time he will make clear, who is the eternal and only Ruler, King of kings, and Lord of lords;
1 Timothy 6:16
Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.
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Hebrews 9:1
Now the first agreement had its rules of worship, and a holy order.
Hebrews 9:6
Now while these things were in existence, the priests went into the first Tent at all times, for prayer and the making of offerings.
Hebrews 9:11
But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,
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Job 15:16
How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!
Psalms 52:3
You have more love for evil than for good, for deceit than for works of righteousness. (Selah.)
Micah 3:2
You who are haters of good and lovers of evil, pulling off their skin from them and their flesh from their bones;
Matthew 12:34
You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.
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:
Matthew 21:13
And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves.
Romans 6:2
In no way. How may we, who are dead to sin, be living in it any longer?
2 Corinthians 10:5
Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ;
Colossians 3:10
And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;
Titus 1:16
They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
Hebrews 13:4
Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
1 Peter 1:14
Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:
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Proverbs 18:2
A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.
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;
Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.
Jeremiah 16:20
Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?
Matthew 11:26
Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.
John 3:21
But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.
Acts 17:24
The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:
Galatians 4:8
But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:
Ephesians 2:12
That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.
1 Thessalonians 5:7
For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;
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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Judges 1:4
And Judah went up; and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; and they overcame ten thousand of them in Bezek.
2 Peter 2:10
But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:
Jude 1:6
And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.
Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1:8
In the same way these dreamers make the flesh unclean, having no respect for authorities, and say evil of rulers.
Jude 1:10
But these men say evil about such things as they have no knowledge of; and the things of which they have natural knowledge, like beasts without reason, are the cause of their destruction.
Jude 1:16
These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.
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Daniel 11:38
But in place of this he will give honour to the god of armed places, and to a god of whom his fathers had no knowledge he will give honour with gold and silver and jewels and things to be desired.
Zechariah 10:2
For the images have said what is not true, and the readers of signs have seen deceit; they have given accounts of false dreams, they give comfort to no purpose: so they go out of the way like sheep, they are troubled because they have no keeper.
John 8:44
You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.
Revelation 13:11
And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and his voice was like that of a dragon.
Revelation 13:12
And he makes use of all the authority of the first beast before his eyes. And he makes the earth and those who are in it give worship to the first beast, whose death-wound was made well.
Revelation 13:13
And he does great signs, even making fire come down from heaven on the earth before the eyes of men.
Revelation 13:14
And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.
Revelation 13:15
And he had power to give breath to the image of the beast, so that words might come from the image of the beast, and that he might have all those who did not give worship to the image of the beast put to death.
Revelation 14:5
And in their mouth there was no false word, for they are untouched by evil.
Revelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.
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Revelation 19:10
And I went on my face before his feet to give him worship. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers who keep the witness of Jesus: give worship to God: for the witness of Jesus is the spirit of the prophet's word.
Revelation 22:8
And I, John, am he who saw these things and to whose ears they came. And when I had seen and given ear, I went down on my face to give worship at the feet of the angel who made these things clear to me.
Revelation 22:9
And he said to me, See you do it not; I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book: give worship to God.
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