Isaiah 43:26
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Isaiah 1:18
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Isaiah 43:9
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Romans 8:33
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33 Who will bring any charge(A) against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
Psalm 141:2
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Jeremiah 2:21-35
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21 I had planted(A) you like a choice vine(B)
of sound and reliable stock.
How then did you turn against me
into a corrupt,(C) wild vine?
22 Although you wash(D) yourself with soap(E)
and use an abundance of cleansing powder,
the stain of your guilt is still before me,”
declares the Sovereign Lord.(F)
23 “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled;(G)
I have not run after the Baals’?(H)
See how you behaved in the valley;(I)
consider what you have done.
You are a swift she-camel
running(J) here and there,
24 a wild donkey(K) accustomed to the desert,(L)
sniffing the wind in her craving—
in her heat who can restrain her?
Any males that pursue her need not tire themselves;
at mating time they will find her.
25 Do not run until your feet are bare
and your throat is dry.
But you said, ‘It’s no use!(M)
I love foreign gods,(N)
and I must go after them.’(O)
26 “As a thief is disgraced(P) when he is caught,
so the people of Israel are disgraced—
they, their kings and their officials,
their priests(Q) and their prophets.(R)
27 They say to wood,(S) ‘You are my father,’
and to stone,(T) ‘You gave me birth.’
They have turned their backs(U) to me
and not their faces;(V)
yet when they are in trouble,(W) they say,
‘Come and save(X) us!’
28 Where then are the gods(Y) you made for yourselves?
Let them come if they can save you
when you are in trouble!(Z)
For you, Judah, have as many gods
as you have towns.(AA)
29 “Why do you bring charges against me?
You have all(AB) rebelled against me,”
declares the Lord.
30 “In vain I punished your people;
they did not respond to correction.(AC)
Your sword has devoured your prophets(AD)
like a ravenous lion.
31 “You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord:
“Have I been a desert to Israel
or a land of great darkness?(AE)
Why do my people say, ‘We are free to roam;
we will come to you no more’?(AF)
32 Does a young woman forget her jewelry,
a bride her wedding ornaments?
Yet my people have forgotten(AG) me,
days without number.
33 How skilled you are at pursuing(AH) love!
Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.
34 On your clothes is found
the lifeblood(AI) of the innocent poor,
though you did not catch them breaking in.(AJ)
Yet in spite of all this
35 you say, ‘I am innocent;(AK)
he is not angry with me.’
But I will pass judgment(AL) on you
because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’(AM)
Romans 10:3
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3 Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.(A)
Isaiah 41:1
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The Helper of Israel
Job 40:7-8
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7 “Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.(A)
Isaiah 50:8
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Job 16:21
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21 on behalf of a man he pleads(A) with God
as one pleads for a friend.
Genesis 32:12
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12 But you have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand(A) of the sea, which cannot be counted.(B)’”
Romans 11:35
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Footnotes
- Romans 11:35 Job 41:11
Luke 16:15
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15 He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves(A) in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts.(B) What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.
Ezekiel 36:37
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37 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Once again I will yield to Israel’s plea(A) and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep,(B)
Job 23:3-6
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3 If only I knew where to find him;
if only I could go to his dwelling!(A)
4 I would state my case(B) before him
and fill my mouth with arguments.(C)
5 I would find out what he would answer me,(D)
and consider what he would say to me.
6 Would he vigorously oppose me?(E)
No, he would not press charges against me.(F)
Luke 18:9-14
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The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector
9 To some who were confident of their own righteousness(A) and looked down on everyone else,(B) Jesus told this parable: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray,(C) one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself(D) and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast(E) twice a week and give a tenth(F) of all I get.’
13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast(G) and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’(H)
14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”(I)
Luke 10:29
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29 But he wanted to justify himself,(A) so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Job 40:4-5
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