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Jeremiah 12:2
You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

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Jeremiah 12:1
You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Job 21:7
“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Psalms 73:3
For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Psalms 73:12
Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

Job 12:6
The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Psalms 73:5
They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

Psalms 73:7
Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

Psalms 73:8
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

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Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

Matthew 15:8
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

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