Isaiah 43:22
Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.
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Isaiah 43:22
Yet you have not called on me, Jacob; but you have been weary of me, Israel.
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Genesis 4:26
A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.
Job 15:4
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
Job 21:14
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
Job 21:15
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
Job 27:9
Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?
Job 36:13
“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.
Psalms 79:6
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name,
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;
Isaiah 65:1
“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
Hosea 7:13
Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Amos 4:5
offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them; for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Matthew 15:9
And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”
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Genesis 31:32
Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
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Deuteronomy 26:5
You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.
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Judges 2:16
Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
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1 Samuel 2:29
Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?’
Mark 14:4
But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, “Why has this ointment been wasted?
Mark 14:5
For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.
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Psalms 14:2
Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
Psalms 14:3
They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Romans 3:11
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
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Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalms 50:15
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
Ezekiel 22:30
“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.
Hosea 5:7
They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
Hosea 5:11
Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment, because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.
Hosea 5:15
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
Hosea 14:1
Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
Hosea 14:2
Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips.
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Psalms 115:1
Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.
Isaiah 48:11
For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.
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Isaiah 2:8
Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
Isaiah 57:9
You went to the king with oil, increased your perfumes, sent your ambassadors far off, and degraded yourself even to Sheol.
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Isaiah 2:9
Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them.
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Isaiah 7:13
He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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Isaiah 10:20
It will come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel, and those who have escaped from the house of Jacob will no more again lean on him who struck them, but shall lean on Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
Isaiah 14:1
For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.
Isaiah 27:6
In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
Isaiah 29:23
But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the middle of him, they will sanctify my name. Yes, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
Isaiah 41:8
“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham my friend,
Isaiah 41:14
Don’t be afraid, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel. I will help you,” says Yahweh. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 42:17
“Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.
Isaiah 43:28
Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”
Isaiah 44:21
Remember these things, Jacob and Israel, for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
Isaiah 44:23
Sing, you heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth! Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
Jeremiah 31:3
Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
Malachi 1:2
“I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob;
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Isaiah 44:5
One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s.’ Another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’ and honor the name of Israel.”
Jeremiah 31:33
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Jeremiah 31:34
They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Ezekiel 36:26
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27
I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my ordinances and do them.
Titus 3:5
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 8:8
For finding fault with them, he said, “Behold, the days are coming”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
Hebrews 10:22
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,
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Isaiah 45:18
For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.
Isaiah 49:14
But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”
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Isaiah 40:28
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
Isaiah 40:29
He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
Isaiah 40:30
Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;
Isaiah 40:31
but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 42:23
Who is there among you who will give ear to this? Who will listen and hear for the time to come?
Isaiah 42:25
Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”
Isaiah 44:28
who says of Cyrus, ‘He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure,’ even saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built;’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’ ”
Isaiah 45:9
Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or your work, ‘He has no hands?’
Isaiah 45:10
Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother, ‘What have you given birth to?’ ”
Isaiah 45:11
Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says: “You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!
Isaiah 45:12
I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.
Isaiah 45:13
I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make all his ways straight. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Isaiah 45:15
Most certainly you are a God who has hidden yourself, God of Israel, the Savior.’ ”
Isaiah 45:19
I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
Isaiah 52:1
Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city, for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
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Isaiah 57:15
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls whom I have made.
Isaiah 57:18
I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
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Isaiah 62:8
Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, “Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have labored,
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Isaiah 5:3
“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
Jeremiah 2:9
“Therefore I will yet contend with you,” says Yahweh, “and I will contend with your children’s children.
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.
Jeremiah 2:12
“Be astonished, you heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 2:13
“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.
Micah 6:2
Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s indictment, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a case against his people, and he will contend with Israel.
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Hosea 3:1
Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.”
Hosea 7:12
When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
Amos 4:4
“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,
Amos 4:6
“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
Zephaniah 3:2
She didn’t obey the voice. She didn’t receive correction. She didn’t trust in Yahweh. She didn’t draw near to her God.
Malachi 2:17
You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahweh’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is the God of justice?’
Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,
James 4:3
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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Matthew 25:45
“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’
Matthew 27:23
But the governor said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, saying, “Let him be crucified!”
Acts 22:7
I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
1 Timothy 1:13
although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
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Mark 14:37
He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?
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Mark 14:38
Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
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John 6:66
At this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.
John 6:67
Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”
John 6:68
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
John 6:69
We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.
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Isaiah 1:11
“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
Isaiah 1:12
When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
Isaiah 1:13
Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies.
Isaiah 1:14
My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
Isaiah 66:3
He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
Acts 7:42
But God turned away and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
2 Corinthians 9:7
Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
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2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction.
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Deuteronomy 10:12
Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
1 Samuel 15:22
Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Amos 5:21
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
Amos 5:22
Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
Amos 5:23
Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Micah 2:3
Therefore Yahweh says: “Behold, I am planning against these people a disaster, from which you will not remove your necks, neither will you walk haughtily, for it is an evil time.
Micah 6:6
How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?
Micah 6:7
Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Micah 6:8
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Matthew 22:37
Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
1 Peter 1:17
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,
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