Hosea 4:6
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6 My people are destroyed (A)for lack of knowledge;
(B)because you have rejected knowledge,
I reject you (C)from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
(D)I also will forget your children.
Isaiah 5:13
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13 Therefore my people go into exile
(A)for lack of knowledge;[a]
their (B)honored men go hungry,[b]
and their multitude is parched with thirst.
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- Isaiah 5:13 Or without their knowledge
- Isaiah 5:13 Or die of hunger
Proverbs 19:2
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- Proverbs 19:2 Or A soul
Hosea 6:6
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6 For (A)I desire steadfast love[a] and not sacrifice,
(B)the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
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- Hosea 6:6 Septuagint mercy
2 Corinthians 4:3-6
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3 And even (A)if our gospel is veiled, (B)it is veiled to (C)those who are perishing. 4 In their case (D)the god of this world (E)has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing (F)the light of (G)the gospel of the glory of Christ, (H)who is the image of God. 5 For what (I)we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with (J)ourselves as your servants[a] for Jesus' sake. 6 For God, who said, (K)“Let light shine out of darkness,” (L)has shone in our hearts to give (M)the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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- 2 Corinthians 4:5 Or slaves (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)
Hosea 4:1
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The Lord Accuses Israel
4 (A)Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,
for (B)the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
and (C)no knowledge of God in the land;
Proverbs 1:30-32
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Matthew 15:8
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8 (A)“‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
Malachi 2:1-3
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The Lord Rebukes the Priests
2 “And now, (A)O priests, (B)this command is for you. 2 (C)If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send (D)the curse upon you and I will curse (E)your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. 3 Behold, (F)I will rebuke your offspring,[a] and (G)spread dung on your faces, the (H)dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.[b]
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- Malachi 2:3 Hebrew seed
- Malachi 2:3 Or to it
Isaiah 17:10
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10 For (A)you have forgotten the God of your salvation
and have not remembered the (B)Rock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant plants
and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,
Jeremiah 2:8
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8 The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
(A)Those who handle the law did not know me;
(B)the shepherds[a] transgressed against me;
(C)the prophets prophesied by Baal
and went after (D)things that do not profit.
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- Jeremiah 2:8 Or rulers
2 Chronicles 15:3
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3 (A)For a long time Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,
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Malachi 2:7-9
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7 For (A)the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people[a] should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. 8 But you have turned aside from the way. (B)You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted (C)the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts, 9 and so (D)I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but (E)show partiality in your instruction.”
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- Malachi 2:7 Hebrew they
1 Samuel 3:12-15
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12 On that day I will fulfill against Eli (A)all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end. 13 (B)And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, (C)because his sons were blaspheming God,[a] (D)and he did not restrain them. 14 Therefore I swear to the house of Eli (E)that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.”
15 Samuel lay until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.
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- 1 Samuel 3:13 Or blaspheming for themselves
Hosea 13:6
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6 (A)but when they had grazed,[a] they became full,
(B)they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;
(C)therefore they forgot me.
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- Hosea 13:6 Hebrew according to their pasture
Jeremiah 8:7-9
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7 Even the stork in the heavens
knows her times,
and (A)the turtledove, (B)swallow, and crane[a]
keep the time of their coming,
(C)but my people know not
the rules[b] of the Lord.
8 (D)“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
and the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
has made it into a lie.
9 (E)The wise men shall be put to shame;
they shall be dismayed (F)and taken;
behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
so what wisdom is in them?
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- Jeremiah 8:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
- Jeremiah 8:7 Or just decrees
Isaiah 1:3
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3 The ox (A)knows its owner,
and the donkey its master's crib,
but Israel does (B)not know,
my people do not understand.”
Jeremiah 4:22
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22 “For (A)my people are foolish;
they know me not;
they are stupid children;
they have no understanding.
(B)They are ‘wise’—in doing evil!
But how to do good they know not.”
Job 36:12
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Luke 20:16-18
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16 (A)He will (B)come and destroy those tenants and (C)give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Surely not!” 17 But he (D)looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written:
18 (F)Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls (G)on anyone, it will crush him.”
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- Luke 20:17 Greek the head of the corner
Jeremiah 5:21
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21 “Hear this, (A)O foolish and senseless people,
(B)who have eyes, but see not,
who have ears, but hear not.
Jeremiah 5:3-4
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3 O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
(A)You have struck them down,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
(B)They have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to repent.
4 Then I said, “These are only the poor;
they have no sense;
(C)for they do not know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
2 Kings 17:16-20
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16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of (A)two calves; and they (B)made an Asherah and (C)worshiped all the host of heaven and served (D)Baal. 17 (E)And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings[a] and used (F)divination and (G)omens and (H)sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but (I)the tribe of Judah only.
19 (J)Judah also did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs that Israel had introduced. 20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them (K)and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
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- 2 Kings 17:17 Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire
Isaiah 56:10-12
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10 (A)His watchmen are blind;
they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent (B)dogs;
they cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
loving to slumber.
11 (C)The dogs have a mighty appetite;
they never have enough.
But (D)they are shepherds who have no understanding;
they have all turned to their own way,
(E)each to his own gain, one and all.
12 (F)“Come,” they say, “let me get wine;
let us fill ourselves with strong drink;
(G)and tomorrow will be like this day,
great beyond measure.”
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