They have dealt corruptly with him;
    they are no longer his children (A)because they are blemished;
    they are (B)a crooked and twisted generation.

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15 that you may be blameless and innocent, (A)children of God (B)without blemish (C)in the midst of (D)a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine (E)as lights in the world,

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Ah, sinful nation,
    a people laden with iniquity,
(A)offspring of evildoers,
    children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
    they have (B)despised (C)the Holy One of Israel,
    they are utterly (D)estranged.

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29 For I know that after my death (A)you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And (B)in the days to come (C)evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, (D)provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”

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17 And Jesus answered, “O faithless and (A)twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? (B)How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

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41 Jesus answered, “O (A)faithless and twisted generation, (B)how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”

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(A)An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So (B)he left them and departed.

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(A)They have deeply corrupted themselves
    as (B)in the days of Gibeah:
(C)he will remember their iniquity;
    he will punish their sins.

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and that they should not be (A)like their fathers,
    (B)a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation (C)whose heart was not steadfast,
    whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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But I am afraid that (A)as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts (B)will be led astray from a (C)sincere and (D)pure devotion to Christ.

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51 (A)“You stiff-necked people, (B)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. (C)As your fathers did, so do you.

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41 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, (A)“We were not born of sexual immorality. We have (B)one Father—even God.”

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But when he saw many of (A)the Pharisees and (B)Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, (C)“You brood of (D)vipers! Who warned you to flee from (E)the wrath to come?

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(A)I said, ‘Surely you will fear me;
    (B)you will accept correction.
Then your[a] dwelling would not be cut off
    according to all that I have appointed against you.’[b]
But (C)all the more they were eager
    to make all their deeds corrupt.

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 3:7 Hebrew her
  2. Zephaniah 3:7 Hebrew her

19 But (A)whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.

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24 (A)You have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

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16 beware (A)lest you act corruptly (B)by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, (C)the likeness of male or female,

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And the Lord said to Moses, (A)“Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have (B)corrupted themselves.

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12 And God (A)saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, (B)for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

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