Ezekiel 20:31
New International Version
31 When you offer your gifts—the sacrifice of your children(A) in the fire—you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. Am I to let you inquire of me, you Israelites? As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I will not let you inquire of me.(B)
Ezekiel 20:26
New International Version
26 I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice(A) of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord.(B)’
Jeremiah 7:31
New International Version
31 They have built the high places of Topheth(A) in the Valley of Ben Hinnom(B) to burn their sons and daughters(C) in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.(D)
Psalm 106:37-39
New International Version
37 They sacrificed their sons(A)
and their daughters to false gods.(B)
38 They shed innocent blood,
the blood of their sons(C) and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was desecrated by their blood.
39 They defiled themselves(D) by what they did;
by their deeds they prostituted(E) themselves.
James 4:1-3
New International Version
Submit Yourselves to God
4 What causes fights and quarrels(A) among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle(B) within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill.(C) You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive,(D) because you ask with wrong motives,(E) that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Matthew 25:11-12
New International Version
11 “Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’
12 “But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’(A)
Zechariah 7:13
New International Version
13 “‘When I called, they did not listen;(A) so when they called, I would not listen,’(B) says the Lord Almighty.(C)
Ezekiel 20:3
New International Version
3 “Son of man, speak to the elders(A) of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Have you come to inquire(B) of me? As surely as I live, I will not let you inquire of me, declares the Sovereign Lord.(C)’
Ezekiel 16:20
New International Version
20 “‘And you took your sons and daughters(A) whom you bore to me(B) and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough?(C)
Ezekiel 14:3-4
New International Version
3 “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts(A) and put wicked stumbling blocks(B) before their faces. Should I let them inquire of me at all?(C) 4 Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When any of the Israelites set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block before their faces and then go to a prophet, I the Lord will answer them myself in keeping with their great idolatry.
Jeremiah 19:5
New International Version
5 They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children(A) in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.(B)
Isaiah 1:15
New International Version
Proverbs 28:9
New International Version
9 If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction,
even their prayers are detestable.(A)
Proverbs 1:27-28
New International Version
27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
when disaster(A) sweeps over you like a whirlwind,
when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
Psalm 66:18
New International Version
18 If I had cherished sin in my heart,
the Lord would not have listened;(A)
Job 27:10
New International Version
10 Will they find delight in the Almighty?(A)
Will they call on God at all times?
Job 27:8
New International Version
2 Kings 3:13-14
New International Version
13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why do you want to involve me? Go to the prophets of your father and the prophets of your mother.”
“No,” the king of Israel answered, “because it was the Lord who called us three kings together to deliver us into the hands of Moab.”
14 Elisha said, “As surely as the Lord Almighty lives, whom I serve, if I did not have respect for the presence of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would not pay any attention to you.
Deuteronomy 18:10-12
New International Version
10 Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire,(A) who practices divination(B) or sorcery,(C) interprets omens, engages in witchcraft,(D) 11 or casts spells,(E) or who is a medium or spiritist(F) or who consults the dead. 12 Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you.(G)
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