Isaiah 57:4
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4 Whom do you ridicule?
Against whom do you make a wide mouth
And stick out the tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
Offspring of falsehood,
2 Peter 2:13
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13 (A)and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure (B)to [a]carouse in the daytime. (C)They are spots and blemishes, [b]carousing in their own deceptions while (D)they feast with you,
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- 2 Peter 2:13 revel
- 2 Peter 2:13 reveling
Isaiah 1:4
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4 Alas, sinful nation,
A people [a]laden with iniquity,
(A)A [b]brood of evildoers,
Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken the Lord,
They have provoked to anger
The Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away backward.
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- Isaiah 1:4 Lit. heavy, weighed down
- Isaiah 1:4 offspring, seed
Psalm 35:21
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21 They also opened their mouth wide against me,
And said, “Aha, aha!
Our eyes have seen it.”
Exodus 9:17
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17 As yet you exalt yourself against My people in that you will not let them go.
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Colossians 3:6
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6 (A)Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon (B)the sons of disobedience,
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Ephesians 5:6
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6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
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Ephesians 2:2-3
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2 (A)in which you once walked according to the [a]course of this world, according to (B)the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in (C)the sons of disobedience, 3 (D)among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in (E)the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and (F)were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
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- Ephesians 2:2 Gr. aion, aeon
Acts 9:4
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4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, (A)why are you persecuting Me?”
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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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Matthew 27:39-44
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39 And (A)those who passed by blasphemed Him, wagging their heads 40 and saying, (B)“You who destroy the temple and build it in three days, save Yourself! (C)If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross.”
41 Likewise the chief priests also, mocking with the [a]scribes and elders, said, 42 “He (D)saved others; Himself He cannot save. [b]If He is the King of Israel, let Him now come down from the cross, and we will believe [c]Him. 43 (E)He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ”
44 (F)Even the robbers who were crucified with Him reviled Him with the same thing.
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- Matthew 27:41 M scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders
- Matthew 27:42 NU omits If
- Matthew 27:42 NU, M in Him
Matthew 27:29
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29 (A)When they had [a]twisted a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand. And they bowed the knee before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”
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- Matthew 27:29 Lit. woven
Matthew 13:38
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38 (A)The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are (B)the sons of the wicked one.
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Hosea 10:9
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9 “O Israel, you have sinned from the days of (A)Gibeah;
There they stood.
The (B)battle in Gibeah against the children of [a]iniquity
Did not [b]overtake them.
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- Hosea 10:9 So with many Heb. mss., LXX, Vg.; MT unruliness
- Hosea 10:9 Or overcome
Ezekiel 2:4
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4 (A)For they are [a]impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’
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- Ezekiel 2:4 Lit. stiff-faced and hard-hearted sons
Lamentations 2:15-16
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15 All who [a]pass by (A)clap their hands at you;
They hiss (B)and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that is called
(C)‘The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth’?”
16 (D)All your enemies have opened their mouth against you;
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, (E)“We have swallowed her up!
Surely this is the (F)day we have waited for;
We have found it, (G)we have seen it!”
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- Lamentations 2:15 Lit. pass by this way
Isaiah 37:29
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29 Because your rage against Me and your tumult
Have come up to My ears,
Therefore (A)I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will (B)turn you back
By the way which you came.” ’
Isaiah 37:23
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23 “Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice,
And lifted up your eyes on high?
Against the Holy One of Israel.
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;
Isaiah 30:1
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Futile Confidence in Egypt
30 “Woe to the rebellious children,” says the Lord,
(A)“Who take counsel, but not of Me,
And who [a]devise plans, but not of My Spirit,
(B)That they may add sin to sin;
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- Isaiah 30:1 Lit. weave a web
Isaiah 10:15
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15 Shall (A)the ax boast itself against him who chops with it?
Or shall the saw exalt itself against him who saws with it?
As if a rod could wield itself against those who lift it up,
Or as if a staff could lift up, as if it were not wood!
Psalm 69:12
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- Psalm 69:12 Sit as judges
Psalm 22:17
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17 I can count all My bones.
(A)They look and stare at Me.
Psalm 22:13
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- Psalm 22:13 Lit. have opened their mouths at Me
Psalm 22:7
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- Psalm 22:7 Show contempt with their mouth
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