But (A)Jehu the son of (B)Hanani (C)the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you (D)help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, (E)wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.

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11 (A)Take no part in the (B)unfruitful (C)works of darkness, but instead (D)expose them.

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21 (A)Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord?
    And do I not (B)loathe those who (C)rise up against you?
22 I hate them with complete hatred;
    I count them my enemies.

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25 But Hezekiah (A)did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for (B)his heart was proud. Therefore (C)wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem.

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18 And they abandoned the house of the Lord, the God of their fathers, and served (A)the Asherim and the idols. And (B)wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

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34 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, from first to last, are written in the chronicles of (A)Jehu the son of Hanani, (B)which are recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

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Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?” He answered him, “I am as you are, my people as your people. We will be with you in the war.”

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At that time (A)Hanani (B)the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, (C)“Because you relied on the king of Syria, and did not rely on the Lord your God, the army of the king of Syria has escaped you.

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16 And the word of the Lord came to (A)Jehu the son of (B)Hanani against Baasha, saying,

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10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, (A)do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, 11 for whoever greets him (B)takes part in his wicked works.

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(A)You adulterous people![a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? (B)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:4 Or You adulteresses!

For the mind that is set on the flesh is (A)hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; (B)indeed, it cannot.

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32 Though they know (A)God's righteous decree that those who practice such things (B)deserve to die, they not only do them but (C)give approval to those who practice them.

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(Formerly in Israel, when a man (A)went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for today's “prophet” was formerly called a seer.)

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31 (A)But if we judged[a] ourselves truly, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged by the Lord, (B)we are disciplined[b] so that we may not be (C)condemned along with the world.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 11:31 Or discerned
  2. 1 Corinthians 11:32 Or when we are judged we are being disciplined by the Lord

30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

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God's Wrath on Unrighteousness

18 For (A)the wrath of God (B)is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

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23 (A)Whoever hates me hates my Father also.

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The Hatred of the World

18 (A)“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.

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10 My son, if sinners (A)entice you,
    do not consent.
11 If they say, “Come with us, (B)let us lie in wait for blood;
    (C)let us ambush the innocent without reason;
12 like Sheol let us (D)swallow them alive,
    and whole, like (E)those who go down to the pit;
13 we shall find all precious goods,
    we shall fill our houses with plunder;
14 throw in your lot among us;
    we will all have one purse”—
15 my son, (F)do not walk in the way with them;
    (G)hold back your foot from their paths,
16 for (H)their feet run to evil,
    and they make haste to shed blood.
17 (I)For in vain is a net spread
    in the sight of any bird,
18 but these men (J)lie in wait for their own blood;
    they (K)set an ambush for their own lives.
19 (L)Such are the ways of everyone who is (M)greedy for unjust gain;
    (N)it takes away the life of its possessors.

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For we are brought to an end by your anger;
    by your wrath we are dismayed.
You have (A)set our iniquities before you,
    our (B)secret sins in the light of your presence.

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15 My (A)mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
    of your deeds of salvation all the day,
    for (B)their number is past my knowledge.

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God Shall Scatter His Enemies

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. A Song.

68 (A)God shall arise, his enemies shall be (B)scattered;
    and those who hate him shall flee before him!

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Your hand will (A)find out all your enemies;
    your right hand will find out those who hate you.

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(A)in whose eyes a vile person is despised,
    but who honors those who fear the Lord;
who (B)swears to his own hurt and does not change;

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