Isaiah 28:13
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13 Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them,
“Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,”[a]
in order that they may go and fall backward
and be broken and snared and taken.(A)
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- 28.13 Meaning of Heb of this verse uncertain
Matthew 21:44
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44 The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”[a]
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Matthew 13:14
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14 With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says:
‘You will indeed listen but never understand,
and you will indeed look but never perceive.(A)
Isaiah 6:9-10
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9 And he said, “Go and say to this people:
‘Keep listening, but do not comprehend;
keep looking, but do not understand.’(A)
10 Make the mind of this people dull,
and stop their ears,
and shut their eyes,
so that they may not look with their eyes
and listen with their ears
and comprehend with their minds
and turn and be healed.”(B)
2 Peter 3:16
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16 speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist[a] to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.
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- 3.16 Other ancient authorities read will twist
Jeremiah 23:36-38
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36 But “the burden of the Lord” you shall mention no more, for the burden is everyone’s own word, and so you pervert the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.(A) 37 Thus you shall ask the prophet, “What has the Lord answered you?” or “What has the Lord spoken?” 38 But if you say, “the burden of the Lord,” thus says the Lord: Because you have said these words, “the burden of the Lord,” when I sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘the burden of the Lord,’ ”
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Isaiah 28:10
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10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”[a](A)
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- 28.10 Meaning of Heb of this verse uncertain
Isaiah 8:14-15
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14 He will become a sanctuary, a stone one strikes against; for both houses of Israel he will become a rock one stumbles over, a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.(A) 15 And many among them shall stumble; they shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”(B)
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Psalm 69:22
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22 Let their table be a trap for them,
a snare for their allies.(A)
1 Peter 2:7-8
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7 This honor, then, is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe,[a]
“The stone that the builders rejected
has become the very head of the corner,”(A)
8 and
“A stone that makes them stumble
and a rock that makes them fall.”
They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.(B)
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- 2.7 Other ancient authorities read obey
2 Corinthians 2:16
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16 to the one group a fragrance from death[a] to death, to the other a fragrance from life[b] to life. Who is qualified for these things?(A)
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Romans 11:9
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9 And David says,
“Let their table become a snare and a trap,
a stumbling block and a retribution for them;(A)
Hosea 6:5
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5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have killed them by the words of my mouth,
and my[a] judgment goes forth as the light.(A)
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- 6.5 Gk Syr: Heb your
Hosea 8:12
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12 Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions,
they are regarded as a strange thing.(A)
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