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Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

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Deuteronomy 32:28
For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

Isaiah 29:10
For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

Isaiah 30:9
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;

Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Jeremiah 2:8
The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 5:21
‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?

Jeremiah 23:11
for both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness,” says Yahweh.

Daniel 12:10
Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

Hosea 4:12
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.

Hosea 4:18
Their drink has become sour. They play the prostitute continually. Her rulers dearly love their shameful way.

Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Malachi 2:1
“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

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Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

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Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

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Jeremiah 23:39
therefore behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off with the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence.

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Ezekiel 44:23
They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Haggai 2:11
“Yahweh of Armies says: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

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Hosea 2:20
I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

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Hosea 10:7
Samaria and her king float away like a twig on the water.

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Hosea 10:15
So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.

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Matthew 23:16
“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

Matthew 23:17
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

Matthew 23:18
And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

Matthew 23:19
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Matthew 23:20
He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it.

Matthew 23:21
He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who has been living in it.

Matthew 23:22
He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.

Matthew 23:23
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

Matthew 23:24
You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

Matthew 23:25
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

Matthew 23:26
You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

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