Matthew 23:24

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

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Genesis 12:16
He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 30:43
The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

Judges 6:5
For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.

1 Samuel 30:17
David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped from there, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

1 Chronicles 5:21
They took away their livestock: of their camels fifty thousand, and of sheep two hundred fifty thousand, and of donkeys two thousand, and of men one hundred thousand.

Job 1:3
His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

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Exodus 8:21
Else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also the ground they are on.

Exodus 23:28
I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.

Deuteronomy 1:44
The Amorites, who lived in that hill country, came out against you and chased you as bees do, and beat you down in Seir, even to Hormah.

Deuteronomy 7:20
Moreover Yahweh your God will send the hornet among them, until those who are left, and hide themselves, perish from before you.

Joshua 24:12
I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.

Judges 14:8
After a while he returned to take her, and he went over to see the carcass of the lion; and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

1 Samuel 24:14
Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Job 8:14
whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.

Job 13:28
though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Job 27:18
He builds his house as the moth, as a booth which the watchman makes.

Psalms 78:45
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

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Leviticus 17:10
“ ‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

Leviticus 17:12
Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”

Leviticus 17:13
“ ‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

Leviticus 17:14
For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life. Therefore I said to the children of Israel, “You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off.”

1 Samuel 14:33
Then they told Saul, saying, “Behold, the people are sinning against Yahweh, in that they eat meat with the blood.” He said, “You have dealt treacherously. Roll a large stone to me today!”

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Leviticus 27:30
“ ‘All the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is Yahweh’s. It is holy to Yahweh.

Leviticus 27:31
If a man redeems anything of his tithe, he shall add a fifth part to it.

Leviticus 27:32
All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.

Leviticus 27:33
He shall not examine whether it is good or bad, neither shall he exchange it. If he exchanges it at all, then both it and that for which it is exchanged shall be holy. It shall not be redeemed.’ ”

Numbers 18:24
For the tithe of the children of Israel, which they offer as a wave offering to Yahweh, I have given to the Levites for an inheritance. Therefore I have said to them, ‘Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.’ ”

Malachi 3:8
Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

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Job 13:15
Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

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Psalms 105:31
He spoke, and swarms of flies came, and lice in all their borders.

Psalms 118:12
They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In Yahweh’s name I cut them off.

Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

Proverbs 30:25
The ants are not a strong people, yet they provide their food in the summer.

Proverbs 30:28
You can catch a lizard with your hands, yet it is in kings’ palaces.

Ecclesiastes 10:1
Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

Isaiah 7:18
It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

Isaiah 50:9
Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

Isaiah 59:5
They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

Hosea 5:12
Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

Matthew 6:19
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

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Psalms 119:6
Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.

Hosea 8:12
I wrote for him the many things of my law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.

Matthew 5:19
Therefore, whoever shall break one of these least commandments and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matthew 22:36
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?”

Mark 12:28
One of the scribes came and heard them questioning together, and knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?”

Mark 12:29
Jesus answered, “The greatest is: ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Mark 12:30
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.

Mark 12:31
The second is like this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Mark 12:32
The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he;

Mark 12:33
and to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

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Proverbs 15:28
The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.

Proverbs 16:22
Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

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1 Samuel 21:7
Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

Proverbs 25:16
Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

Ecclesiastes 7:16
Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Zechariah 7:7
Aren’t these the words which Yahweh proclaimed by the former prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and its cities around her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?’ ”

Matthew 6:1
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 6:2
Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:3
But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,

Matthew 6:4
so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Matthew 6:5
“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:6
But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Luke 16:15
He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Philippians 3:6
concerning zeal, persecuting the assembly; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.

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Isaiah 31:1
Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!

Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Ezekiel 16:23
“ ‘ “It has happened after all your wickedness—woe, woe to you!” says the Lord Yahweh—

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.

Hosea 9:12
Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Revelation 8:13
I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the other blasts of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!”

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Jeremiah 14:13
Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, the prophets tell them, ‘You will not see the sword, neither will you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.’ ”

Hosea 9:8
A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

Matthew 21:27
They answered Jesus, and said, “We don’t know.” He also said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

John 3:9
Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”

John 3:10
Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?

Romans 2:20
a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

1 Timothy 1:7
desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say nor about what they strongly affirm.

1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

2 Timothy 3:7
always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

2 Peter 2:12
But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

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Job 20:5
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Job 20:18
He will restore that for which he labored, and will not swallow it down. He will not rejoice according to the substance that he has gotten.

Proverbs 1:12
Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.

Jeremiah 51:34
“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.

Jeremiah 51:44
I will execute judgment on Bel in Babylon, and I will bring out of his mouth that which he has swallowed up. The nations will not flow any more to him. Yes, the wall of Babylon will fall.

Lamentations 2:16
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”

Hosea 8:7
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

Hosea 8:8
Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.

Amos 8:4
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

1 Corinthians 15:54
But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

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Daniel 6:4
Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

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Daniel 6:5
Then these men said, “We won’t find any occasion against this Daniel, unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.”

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Zechariah 11:11
It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.

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Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Matthew 6:7
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

Matthew 6:8
Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need before you ask him.

Matthew 9:14
Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

Matthew 23:5
But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

Luke 5:33
They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?”

John 5:44
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

John 7:18
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

Romans 10:2
For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

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Matthew 19:25
When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”

Matthew 19:26
Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Mark 10:24
The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

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Matthew 10:17
But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

Matthew 23:32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Matthew 23:34
Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city,

Matthew 23:35
that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

Matthew 23:36
Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

Acts 22:19
I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

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Matthew 27:4
saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

Matthew 27:5
He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary and departed. Then he went away and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:7
They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them to bury strangers in.

Matthew 27:8
Therefore that field has been called “The Field of Blood” to this day.

Luke 6:10
He looked around at them all, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He did, and his hand was restored as sound as the other.

John 18:40
Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

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Mark 1:22
They were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

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Mark 7:2
Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

Mark 7:3
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

Mark 7:4
They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

Mark 7:5
The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

Mark 7:6
He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Mark 7:7
They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

Mark 7:8
“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”

Mark 7:9
He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

Mark 7:10
For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Mark 7:11
But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban,” ’ ” that is to say, given to God,

Mark 7:12
“then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

Mark 7:13
making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

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Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

Isaiah 5:13
Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

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 29:14
therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their prudent men will be hidden.”

Isaiah 42:19
Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant?

Jeremiah 14:14
Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them. I didn’t command them. I didn’t speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.

Zechariah 11:5
Their buyers slaughter them and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.

Matthew 13:15
for this people’s heart has grown callous, their ears are dull of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and would turn again, and I would heal them.’

Luke 11:40
You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

1 Timothy 4:3
forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

2 Timothy 3:9
But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.

2 Peter 3:5
For they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

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Matthew 12:2
But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

Matthew 15:1
Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

Matthew 22:18
But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

Matthew 23:2
saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.

Mark 2:7
“Why does this man speak blasphemies like that? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

Mark 2:16
The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 6:2
But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

Luke 12:56
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?

Luke 13:15
Therefore the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Doesn’t each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water?

John 5:9
Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now that day was a Sabbath.

John 9:16
Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” So there was division among them.

Hebrews 12:3
For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

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Luke 5:30
Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

John 5:10
So the Jews said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat.”

John 5:11
He answered them, “He who made me well said to me, ‘Take up your mat and walk.’”

John 5:16
For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

John 9:14
It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

John 9:15
Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”

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Matthew 16:12
Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Acts 23:8
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

Acts 23:9
A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

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Proverbs 15:14
The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

Jeremiah 8:7
Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

Lamentations 2:14
Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.

Ezekiel 13:3
The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Zechariah 11:15
Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

Luke 19:44
and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Romans 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

1 Timothy 6:5
constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

2 Timothy 3:13
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

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Romans 3:28
We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

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1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

Proverbs 1:30
They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

Proverbs 1:31
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

Proverbs 1:32
For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Isaiah 27:11
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 28:7
They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

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 56:12
“Come,” they say, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”

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.

Malachi 2:7
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

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.

Romans 14:21
It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

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