Isaiah 5:24
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24 Therefore, (A)as the [a]fire devours the stubble,
And the flame consumes the chaff,
So (B)their root will be as rottenness,
And their blossom will ascend like dust;
Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:24 Lit. tongue of fire
Isaiah 30:12
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12 Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel:
“Because you (A)despise this word,
And trust in oppression and perversity,
And rely on them,
Job 18:16
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16 (A)His roots are dried out below,
And his branch withers above.
Luke 3:17
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17 His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and (A)gather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire.”
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Joel 2:5
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5 (A)With a noise like chariots
Over mountaintops they leap,
Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble,
Like a strong people set in battle array.
Isaiah 47:14
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14 Behold, they shall be (A)as stubble,
The fire shall (B)burn them;
They shall not deliver themselves
From the power of the flame;
It shall not be a coal to be warmed by,
Nor a fire to sit before!
Isaiah 30:9
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9 That (A)this is a rebellious people,
Lying children,
Children who will not hear the law of the Lord;
Exodus 15:7
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7 And in the greatness of Your (A)excellence
You have overthrown those who rose against You;
You sent forth (B)Your wrath;
It (C)consumed them (D)like stubble.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
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8 (A)Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, (B)who[a] has also given us His Holy Spirit.
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- 1 Thessalonians 4:8 NU who also gives
1 Corinthians 3:12-13
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12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day (A)will declare it, because (B)it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is.
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Acts 13:41
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41 ‘Behold,(A) you despisers,
Marvel and perish!
For I work a work in your days,
A work which you will by no means believe,
Though one were to declare it to you.’ ”
John 12:48
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48 (A)He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him—(B)the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
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Luke 10:16
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16 (A)He who hears you hears Me, (B)he who rejects you rejects Me, and (C)he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”
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Luke 7:30
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30 But the Pharisees and [a]lawyers rejected (A)the will of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.
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- Luke 7:30 the experts in the law
Matthew 3:12
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12 (A)His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will (B)burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
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Malachi 4:1
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The Great Day of God
4 “For behold, (A)the day is coming,
Burning like an oven,
And all (B)the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be (C)stubble.
And the day which is coming shall burn them up,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“That will (D)leave them neither root nor branch.
Nahum 1:10
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10 For while tangled (A)like thorns,
(B)And while drunken like drunkards,
(C)They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.
Amos 2:9
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9 “Yet it was I who destroyed the (A)Amorite before them,
Whose height was like the (B)height of the cedars,
And he was as strong as the oaks;
Yet I (C)destroyed his fruit above
And his roots beneath.
Hosea 9:16
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16 Ephraim is (A)stricken,
Their root is dried up;
They shall bear no fruit.
Yes, were they to bear children,
I would kill the darlings of their womb.”
Hosea 5:12
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12 Therefore I will be to Ephraim like a moth,
And to the house of Judah (A)like rottenness.
Jeremiah 8:9
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9 (A)The wise men are ashamed,
They are dismayed and taken.
Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord;
So (B)what wisdom do they have?
Jeremiah 6:19
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19 (A)Hear, O earth!
Behold, I will certainly bring (B)calamity on this people—
(C)The fruit of their thoughts,
Because they have not heeded My words
Nor My law, but rejected it.
Isaiah 9:14-17
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14 Therefore the Lord will cut off head and tail from Israel,
Palm branch and bulrush (A)in one day.
15 The elder and honorable, he is the head;
The prophet who teaches lies, he is the tail.
16 For (B)the leaders of this people cause them to err,
And those who are led by them are destroyed.
17 Therefore the Lord (C)will have no joy in their young men,
Nor have mercy on their fatherless and widows;
For everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer,
And every mouth speaks [a]folly.
(D)For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 9:17 foolishness
Isaiah 8:6
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6 “Inasmuch as these people refused
The waters of (A)Shiloah that flow softly,
And rejoice (B)in Rezin and in Remaliah’s son;
Psalm 50:17
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17 (A)Seeing you hate instruction
And cast My words behind you?
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