Ezekiel 33:32
Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.
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Ezekiel 33:32
Behold, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument; for they hear your words, but they don’t do them.
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Genesis 4:21
His brother’s name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.
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Genesis 16:13
She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
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 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
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.
Matthew 12:8
For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
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Genesis 34:30
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house.”
Deuteronomy 7:7
Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;
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.
Psalms 105:12
when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
Isaiah 51:2
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.
Ezekiel 33:24
“Son of man, those who inhabit the waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, ‘Abraham was one, and he inherited the land; but we are many. The land is given us for inheritance.’
Ezekiel 33:25
Therefore tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. So should you possess the land?
Ezekiel 33:26
You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?” ’
Ezekiel 33:27
“You shall tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “As I live, surely those who are in the waste places will fall by the sword. I will give whoever is in the open field to the animals to be devoured, and those who are in the strongholds and in the caves will die of the pestilence.
Ezekiel 33:28
I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment. The pride of her power will cease. The mountains of Israel will be desolate, so that no one will pass through.
Ezekiel 33:29
Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment because of all their abominations which they have committed.” ’
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Exodus 4:11
Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?
Exodus 4:12
Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”
Ezekiel 3:27
But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.”
Ezekiel 11:25
Then I spoke to the captives all the things that Yahweh had shown me.
Ezekiel 24:27
In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you will speak and be no more mute. So you will be a sign to them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”
Ezekiel 29:21
“In that day I will cause a horn to sprout for the house of Israel, and I will open your mouth among them. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.”
Ezekiel 33:21
In the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, one who had escaped out of Jerusalem came to me, saying, “The city has been defeated!”
Luke 21:15
for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.
Ephesians 6:19
Pray for me, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,
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Exodus 31:6
Behold, I myself have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
Proverbs 14:6
A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
Matthew 7:15
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.
John 6:66
At this, many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
Ephesians 4:14
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
1 Thessalonians 5:20
Don’t despise prophecies.
2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,
2 Timothy 4:4
and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.
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1 Samuel 11:13
Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”
1 Samuel 11:14
Then Samuel said to the people, “Come! Let’s go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.”
1 Samuel 11:15
All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
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2 Samuel 24:2
The king said to Joab the captain of the army, who was with him, “Now go back and forth through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the sum of the people.”
Psalms 36:2
For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.
Proverbs 28:13
He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Ezekiel 5:14
“ ‘Moreover I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations that are around you, in the sight of all that pass by.
Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.
Matthew 19:20
The young man said to him, “All these things I have observed from my youth. What do I still lack?”
Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
Romans 7:9
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Philippians 3:6
concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
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2 Chronicles 24:2
Joash did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
2 Chronicles 24:6
The king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said to him, “Why haven’t you required of the Levites to bring in the tax of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel, out of Judah and out of Jerusalem, for the Tent of the Testimony?”
2 Chronicles 24:14
When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.
Psalms 78:34
When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
Psalms 78:37
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
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Job 30:9
“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
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Psalms 17:1
Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea. Give ear to my prayer that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.
Proverbs 23:26
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Jeremiah 3:10
Yet for all this her treacherous sister, Judah, has not returned to me with her whole heart, but only in pretense,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 5:2
Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”
Jeremiah 42:2
and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication be presented before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, even for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes see us,
Jeremiah 42:3
that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the things that we should do.”
Jeremiah 42:4
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you. Behold, I will pray to Yahweh your God according to your words; and it will happen that whatever thing Yahweh answers you, I will declare it to you. I will keep nothing back from you.”
Jeremiah 42:20
For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’
Hosea 11:12
Ephraim surrounds me with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit. Judah still strays from God, and is unfaithful to the Holy One.
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Psalms 26:8
Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.
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Psalms 27:8
When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
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Psalms 49:4
I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.
Ezekiel 20:49
Then I said, “Ah Lord Yahweh! They say of me, ‘Isn’t he a speaker of parables?’ ”
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Psalms 51:6
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Matthew 15:7
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
Matthew 15:9
And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”
Matthew 23:27
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:28
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Luke 12:1
Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Romans 2:20
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.
Romans 2:21
You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?
Romans 2:22
You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Romans 2:23
You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?
Romans 2:24
For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.
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Ecclesiastes 4:16
There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was—yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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Isaiah 5:1
Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
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Jeremiah 44:16
“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.
Matthew 7:27
The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great.”
Luke 6:49
But he who hears and doesn’t do, is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream broke, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.”
James 2:17
Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.
James 2:18
Yes, a man will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
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Isaiah 8:11
For Yahweh spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,
Ezekiel 1:3
Yahweh’s word came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and Yahweh’s hand was there on him.
Ezekiel 3:14
So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away; and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; and Yahweh’s hand was strong on me.
Ezekiel 3:22
Yahweh’s hand was there on me; and he said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and I will talk with you there.”
Ezekiel 11:5
Yahweh’s Spirit fell on me, and he said to me, “Speak, ‘Yahweh says: “Thus you have said, house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.
Ezekiel 37:1
Yahweh’s hand was on me, and he brought me out in Yahweh’s Spirit, and set me down in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones.
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Ezekiel 33:20
Yet you say, “The way of the Lord is not fair.” House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.’ ”
Ezekiel 33:23
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
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Matthew 8:19
A scribe came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
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Matthew 8:20
Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
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Luke 7:27
This is he of whom it is written, ‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’
Luke 16:16
“The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.
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Luke 8:5
“The farmer went out to sow his seed. As he sowed, some fell along the road, and it was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it.
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Mark 10:17
As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
Mark 10:18
Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except one—God.
Mark 10:19
You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’ ”
Mark 10:21
Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross.”
Mark 10:22
But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions.
Acts 8:18
Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money,
Acts 8:19
saying, “Give me also this power, that whomever I lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 8:20
But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!
Acts 8:21
You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn’t right before God.
Acts 24:25
As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”
Acts 24:26
Meanwhile, he also hoped that money would be given to him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore also he sent for him more often and talked with him.
Acts 26:28
Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”
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John 15:8
“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
Romans 8:14
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
Romans 8:30
Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
Hebrews 6:4
For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
Hebrews 6:5
and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,
Hebrews 6:6
and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
Hebrews 6:7
For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it and produces a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;
Hebrews 6:8
but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.
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Proverbs 29:1
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
Isaiah 58:1
“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Ezekiel 2:5
They, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse—for they are a rebellious house—yet they will know that there has been a prophet among them.
Luke 12:46
then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
John 3:21
But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”
John 12:48
He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.
John 15:22
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
John 19:11
Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”
Acts 17:30
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
2 Corinthians 2:16
to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
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Psalms 106:14
but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
Song of Solomon 2:12
The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
Galatians 3:1
Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?
Galatians 3:4
Did you suffer so many things in vain, if it is indeed in vain?
Galatians 4:14
That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Galatians 4:16
So then, have I become your enemy by telling you the truth?
Galatians 4:17
They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.
Galatians 4:18
But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
Galatians 4:19
My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—
Galatians 4:20
but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.
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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.
John 3:18
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.
John 9:41
Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
2 Corinthians 2:14
Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are saved and in those who perish:
2 Corinthians 3:6
who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
1 Timothy 5:8
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
James 4:17
To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
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James 1:22
But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
James 2:14
What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him?
James 2:15
And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
James 2:16
and one of you tells them, “Go in peace. Be warmed and filled;” yet you didn’t give them the things the body needs, what good is it?
James 2:19
You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe—and shudder.
James 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
James 2:21
Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
James 2:22
You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected.
James 2:23
So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
James 2:24
You see then that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.
James 2:25
In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
James 2:26
For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.
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