Ezekiel 33:26
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26 You depend on your swords, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?(A)
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Zephaniah 3:3
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3 The officials within it
are roaring lions;
its judges are evening wolves
that leave nothing until the morning.(A)
Micah 2:1-2
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Social Evils Denounced
2 Woe to those who devise wickedness
and evil deeds[a] on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
because it is in their power.(A)
2 They covet fields and seize them,
houses and take them away;
they oppress householder and house,
people and their inheritance.(B)
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- 2.1 Cn: Heb work evil
Genesis 27:40
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40 By your sword you shall live,
and you shall serve your brother,
but when you break loose,[a]
you shall break his yoke from your neck.”(A)
Footnotes
- 27.40 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Revelation 21:27
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27 But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(A)
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Revelation 21:8
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8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless,[a] the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,[b] the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”(A)
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1 Peter 4:3
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3 You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(A)
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Ezekiel 22:9-11
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9 In you are those who slander to shed blood, those in you who eat upon the mountains, who commit lewdness in your midst.(A) 10 In you they uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women during their menstrual periods.(B) 11 One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you defiles his sister, his father’s daughter.(C)
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Ezekiel 18:15
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15 who does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,
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Ezekiel 18:11-12
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11 who does any of these things (though his father[a] does none of them), who eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor’s wife, 12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,(A)
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- 18.11 Heb he
Ezekiel 18:6
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6 if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period,(A)
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Jeremiah 5:8-9
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8 They were well-fed lusty stallions,
each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.(A)
9 Shall I not punish them for these things?
says the Lord,
and shall I not bring retribution
on a nation such as this?(B)
Psalm 94:20-21
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20 Can wicked rulers be allied with you,
those who contrive mischief by statute?(A)
21 They band together against the life of the righteous
and condemn the innocent to death.(B)
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