Deuteronomy 9:7
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7 Remember; do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; you have been rebellious against the Lord from the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place.
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Numbers 21:5
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5 The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we detest this miserable food.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 31:27
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27 For I know well how rebellious and stubborn you are. If you already have been so rebellious toward the Lord while I am still alive among you, how much more after my death!(A)
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Numbers 25:2
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2 These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.(A)
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Numbers 11:4
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4 The camp followers with them had a strong craving, and the Israelites also wept again and said, “If only we had meat to eat!(A)
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Exodus 17:2
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2 The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?”(A)
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Exodus 16:2
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2 The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.(A)
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Exodus 14:11
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11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt?(A)
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1 Timothy 1:13-15
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13 even though I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a man of violence. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,(A) 14 and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me[a] with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.(B) 15 The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the foremost.(C)
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- 1.14 Gk lacks for me
Ephesians 2:11
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One in Christ
11 So then, remember that at one time you gentiles by birth,[a] called “the uncircumcision” by those who are called “the circumcision”—a circumcision made in the flesh by human hands(A)—
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- 2.11 Gk in the flesh
1 Corinthians 15:9
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9 For I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.(A)
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Ezekiel 36:31
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31 Then you shall remember your evil ways and your dealings that were not good, and you shall loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominable deeds.(A)
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Ezekiel 20:43
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43 There you shall remember your ways and all the deeds by which you have polluted yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.(A)
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Ezekiel 16:61-63
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61 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you receive your older and younger sisters and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of my[a] covenant with you.(A) 62 I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord,(B) 63 in order that you may remember and be confounded and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord God.(C)
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- 16.61 Heb lacks my
Psalm 95:8-11
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8 Do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,(A)
9 when your ancestors tested me
and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.(B)
10 For forty years I loathed that generation
and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
and they do not regard my ways.”(C)
11 Therefore in my anger I swore,
“They shall not enter my rest.”(D)
Psalm 78:8-72
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8 and that they should not be like their ancestors,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
whose spirit was not faithful to God.(A)
9 The Ephraimites, armed with[a] the bow,
turned back on the day of battle.(B)
10 They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to walk according to his law.(C)
11 They forgot what he had done
and the miracles that he had shown them.(D)
12 In the sight of their ancestors he worked marvels
in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.(E)
13 He divided the sea and let them pass through it
and made the waters stand like a heap.(F)
14 In the daytime he led them with a cloud
and all night long with a fiery light.(G)
15 He split rocks open in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.(H)
16 He made streams come out of the rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
17 Yet they sinned still more against him,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert.(I)
18 They tested God in their heart
by demanding the food they craved.(J)
19 They spoke against God, saying,
“Can God spread a table in the wilderness?(K)
20 Even though he struck the rock so that water gushed out
and torrents overflowed,
can he also give bread
or provide meat for his people?”(L)
21 Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of rage;
a fire was kindled against Jacob,
his anger mounted against Israel,(M)
22 because they had no faith in God
and did not trust his saving power.(N)
23 Yet he commanded the skies above
and opened the doors of heaven;(O)
24 he rained down on them manna to eat
and gave them the grain of heaven.(P)
25 Mortals ate of the bread of angels;
he sent them food in abundance.
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by his power he led out the south wind;(Q)
27 he rained flesh upon them like dust,
winged birds like the sand of the seas;(R)
28 he let them fall within their camp,
all around their dwellings.
29 And they ate and were well filled,
for he gave them what they craved.(S)
30 But before they had satisfied their craving,
while the food was still in their mouths,
31 the anger of God rose against them,
and he killed the strongest of them
and laid low the flower of Israel.(T)
32 In spite of all this they still sinned;
they did not believe in his wonders.(U)
33 So he made their days vanish like a breath
and their years in terror.(V)
34 When he killed them, they searched for him;
they repented and sought God earnestly.(W)
35 They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God their redeemer.(X)
36 But they flattered him with their mouths;
they lied to him with their tongues.(Y)
37 Their heart was not steadfast toward him;
they were not true to his covenant.
38 Yet he, being compassionate,
forgave their iniquity
and did not destroy them;
often he restrained his anger
and did not stir up all his wrath.(Z)
39 He remembered that they were but flesh,
a wind that passes and does not come again.(AA)
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
and grieved him in the desert!(AB)
41 They tested God again and again
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.(AC)
42 They did not keep in mind his power
or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
43 when he displayed his signs in Egypt
and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
44 He turned their rivers to blood,
so that they could not drink of their streams.(AD)
45 He sent among them swarms of flies that devoured them
and frogs that destroyed them.(AE)
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail
and their sycamores with frost.(AF)
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail
and their flocks to thunderbolts.(AG)
49 He let loose on them his fierce anger,
wrath, indignation, and distress,
a company of destroying angels.(AH)
50 He made a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death
but gave their lives over to the plague.
51 He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.(AI)
52 Then he led out his people like sheep
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.(AJ)
53 He led them in safety so that they were not afraid,
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.(AK)
54 And he brought them to his holy hill,
to the mountain that his right hand had won.(AL)
55 He drove out nations before them;
he apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.(AM)
56 Yet they tested the Most High God
and rebelled against him.
They did not observe his decrees(AN)
57 but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors;
they twisted like a treacherous bow.(AO)
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places;
they moved him to jealousy with their idols.(AP)
59 When God heard, he was full of wrath,
and he utterly rejected Israel.
60 He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh,
the tent where he dwelt among mortals,(AQ)
61 and delivered his power to captivity,
his glory to the hand of the foe.(AR)
62 He gave his people to the sword
and vented his wrath on his heritage.(AS)
63 Fire devoured their young men,
and their young women had no marriage song.(AT)
64 Their priests fell by the sword,
and their widows made no lamentation.(AU)
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
like a warrior shouting because of wine.(AV)
66 He put his adversaries to rout;
he put them to everlasting disgrace.(AW)
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loves.(AX)
69 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
like the earth, which he has founded forever.(AY)
70 He chose his servant David
and took him from the sheepfolds;(AZ)
71 from tending the nursing ewes he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel, his inheritance.(BA)
72 With upright heart he tended them
and guided them with skillful hand.(BB)
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Nehemiah 9:16-18
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16 “But they, our ancestors, acted presumptuously and stiffened their necks and did not obey your commandments;(A) 17 they refused to obey and were not mindful of the wonders that you performed among them, but they stiffened their necks and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and you did not forsake them.(B) 18 Even when they had cast an image of a calf for themselves and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and had committed great blasphemies,(C)
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Deuteronomy 32:5-6
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5 yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him,[a]
a perverse and crooked generation.(A)
6 Do you thus repay the Lord,
O foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father who created you,
who made you and established you?(B)
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Deuteronomy 8:2
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2 Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.(A)
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Numbers 20:2-5
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2 Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered together against Moses and against Aaron.(A) 3 The people quarreled with Moses and said, “Would that we had died when our kindred died before the Lord!(B) 4 Why have you brought the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?(C) 5 Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to bring us to this wretched place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.”
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Numbers 16:1-35
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Revolt of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram
16 Now Korah son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi, along with Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth son[a] of Reuben, took(A) 2 two hundred fifty Israelite men, leaders of the congregation, chosen from the assembly, well-known men, and they confronted Moses.(B) 3 They assembled against Moses and against Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! All the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them. So why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”(C) 4 When Moses heard it, he fell on his face.(D) 5 Then he spoke to Korah and all his congregation, saying, “In the morning the Lord will make known who is his and who is holy and who will be allowed to approach him; the one whom he will choose he will allow to approach him.(E) 6 Do this: take censers, Korah and all your[b] congregation, 7 and tomorrow put fire in them, and lay incense on them before the Lord, and the man whom the Lord chooses shall be the holy one. You Levites have gone too far!” 8 Then Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you Levites! 9 Is it too little for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel to allow you to approach him in order to perform the duties of the Lord’s tabernacle and to stand before the congregation and serve them?(F) 10 He has allowed you to approach him, and all your brother Levites with you, yet you seek the priesthood as well! 11 Therefore you and all your congregation have gathered together against the Lord. What is Aaron that you rail against him?”(G)
12 Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, but they said, “We will not come! 13 Is it too little that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also lord it over us?(H) 14 It is clear you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come!”(I)
15 Moses was very angry and said to the Lord, “Pay no attention to their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, and I have not harmed any one of them.”(J) 16 And Moses said to Korah, “As for you and all your congregation, be present tomorrow before the Lord, you and they and Aaron,(K) 17 and let each one of you take his censer and put incense on it and each one of you present his censer before the Lord, two hundred fifty censers, you also, and Aaron, each his censer.” 18 So each man took his censer, and they put fire in the censers and laid incense on them, and they stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron. 19 Then Korah assembled the whole congregation against them at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the glory of the Lord appeared to the whole congregation.(L)
20 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 21 “Separate yourselves from this congregation, so that I may consume them in a moment.”(M) 22 They fell on their faces and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one person sin and you become angry with the whole congregation?”(N)
23 And the Lord spoke to Moses: 24 “Speak to the congregation, saying: Get away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.” 25 So Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram; the elders of Israel followed him. 26 He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Turn away from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs, or you will be swept away for all their sins.”(O) 27 So they got away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrances of their tents, together with their wives, their children, and their little ones. 28 And Moses said, “This is how you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works; it has not been of my own accord:(P) 29 If these people die a natural death or if a natural fate comes on them, then the Lord has not sent me. 30 But if the Lord creates something new and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”(Q)
31 As soon as he finished speaking all these words, the ground under them was split apart.(R) 32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households—everyone who belonged to Korah and all their goods.(S) 33 So they with all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol; the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. 34 All Israel around them fled at their outcry, for they said, “The earth will swallow us, too!” 35 And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the two hundred fifty men offering the incense.(T)
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Numbers 14:1-10
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The People Rebel
14 Then all the congregation raised a loud cry, and the people wept that night. 2 And all the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron; the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!(A) 3 Why is the Lord bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4 So they said to one another, “Let us choose a captain and go back to Egypt.”
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the Israelites.(B) 6 And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes 7 and said to all the congregation of the Israelites, “The land that we went through as spies is an exceedingly good land.(C) 8 If the Lord is pleased with us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land that flows with milk and honey.(D) 9 Only, do not rebel against the Lord, and do not fear the people of the land, for they are no more than bread for us; their protection is removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”(E) 10 But the whole congregation threatened to stone them.
Then the glory of the Lord appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites.(F)
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