Isaiah 59:13
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13 transgressing, and denying the Lord,
and turning back from following our God,
(A)speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
James 3:6
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6 And (A)the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, (B)staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life,[a] and set on fire by hell.[b]
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James 1:15
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15 Then desire (A)when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and (B)sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
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Hebrews 3:12
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12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from (A)the living God.
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Titus 1:16
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16 (A)They profess to know God, but they (B)deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, (C)unfit for any good work.
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Romans 3:10-18
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10 as it is written:
(A)“None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
13 (B)“Their throat is (C)an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
(D)“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 (E)“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 (F)“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and (G)the way of peace they have not known.”
18 (H)“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Acts 5:3-4
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3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has (A)Satan filled your heart to lie (B)to the Holy Spirit and (C)to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? 4 While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but (D)to God.”
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Matthew 12:34-36
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34 (A)You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, (B)when you are evil? (C)For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. 35 (D)The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. 36 I tell you, (E)on the day of judgment (F)people will give account for (G)every careless word they speak,
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Matthew 10:33
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33 but (A)whoever denies me before men, (B)I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.
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Hosea 11:12
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12 [a] Ephraim (A)has surrounded me with lies,
and the house of Israel with deceit,
but Judah still walks with God
and is faithful to the Holy One.
Footnotes
- Hosea 11:12 Ch 12:1 in Hebrew
Hosea 7:13
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13 (A)Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
(B)I would redeem them,
but (C)they speak lies against me.
Hosea 6:7
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Hosea 1:2
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Hosea's Wife and Children
2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, (A)“Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have (B)children of whoredom, for (C)the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”
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Ezekiel 18:25
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25 (A)“Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
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Ezekiel 6:9
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9 then those of you who escape (A)will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how (B)I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes (C)that go whoring after their idols. (D)And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
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Jeremiah 42:20
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20 that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. (A)For you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, (B)‘Pray for us to the Lord our God, and (C)whatever the Lord our God says, declare to us and we will do it.’
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Jeremiah 32:40
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40 (A)I will make with them an everlasting covenant, that I will not turn away from doing good to them. (B)And I will put the fear of me in their hearts, that they may not turn from me.
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Jeremiah 17:13
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13 O Lord, (A)the hope of Israel,
(B)all who forsake you shall be put to shame;
those who turn away from you[a] (C)shall be written in the earth,
for (D)they have forsaken (E)the Lord, the fountain of living water.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:13 Hebrew me
Jeremiah 9:2-5
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2 [a] Oh that I had in the desert
a travelers' lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all (A)adulterers,
a company of (B)treacherous men.
3 (C)They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong[b] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
(D)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 (E)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every (F)brother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor (G)goes about as a slanderer.
5 Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
- Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
Jeremiah 5:23
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23 (A)But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart;
they have turned aside and gone away.
Jeremiah 3:20
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20 (A)Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband,
so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel,
declares the Lord.’”
Jeremiah 3:10
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10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me (A)with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”
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Jeremiah 2:19-21
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19 (A)Your evil will chastise you,
and (B)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and (C)bitter
for (D)you to forsake the Lord your God;
the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.
20 “For long ago I (E)broke your yoke
and burst your bonds;
but you said, (F)‘I will not serve.’
Yes, (G)on every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed down (H)like a whore.
21 (I)Yet I planted you a choice vine,
wholly of pure seed.
(J)How then have you turned degenerate
and become a wild vine?
Jeremiah 2:13
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13 for my people have committed two evils:
(A)they have forsaken (B)me,
the fountain of (C)living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns that can hold no water.
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