Isaiah 59:3
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3 (A)For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.
Isaiah 1:15
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15 When you (A)spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
(B)even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
(C)your hands are full of blood.
Hosea 4:2
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2 (A)there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
they break all bounds, and (B)bloodshed follows bloodshed.
Ezekiel 7:23
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23 (A)“Forge a chain![a] (B)For the land is full of bloody crimes (C)and the city is full of violence.
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- Ezekiel 7:23 Probably refers to an instrument of captivity
Jeremiah 2:34
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34 Also on your skirts is found
(A)the lifeblood of the guiltless poor;
you did not find them (B)breaking in.
Yet in spite of all these things
Jeremiah 2:30
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30 In vain have I (A)struck your children;
they took no correction;
(B)your own sword devoured your prophets
like a ravening lion.
Isaiah 1:21
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The Unfaithful City
21 How the faithful city
(A)has become a whore,[a]
(B)she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:21 Or become unchaste
1 Timothy 4:2
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2 through the insincerity of (A)liars whose consciences are seared,
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Matthew 27:4
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4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? (A)See to it yourself.”
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Micah 7:2
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2 (A)The godly has perished from the earth,
and (B)there is no one upright among mankind;
(C)they all lie in wait for blood,
and (D)each hunts the other with a net.
Micah 6:12
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12 Your[a] rich men are (A)full of violence;
your inhabitants (B)speak lies,
and (C)their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
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- Micah 6:12 Hebrew whose
Micah 3:10-12
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10 (A)who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 (B)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
(C)its priests teach for a price;
(D)its prophets practice divination for money;
(E)yet they lean on the Lord and (F)say,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
(G)No disaster shall come upon us.”
12 Therefore because of you
(H)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (I)shall become a heap of ruins,
and (J)the mountain of the house (K)a wooded height.
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 7:3
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Ezekiel 35:6
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6 therefore, (A)as I live, declares the Lord God, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; (B)because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you.
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Ezekiel 22:2
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2 “And you, (A)son of man, (B)will you judge, will you judge (C)the bloody city? (D)Then declare to her all her abominations.
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Ezekiel 13:8
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8 Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore behold, (A)I am against you, declares the Lord God.
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Ezekiel 9:9
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9 Then he said to me, (A)“The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. (B)The land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice. For (C)they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’
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Jeremiah 22:17
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17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
(A)for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
Jeremiah 9:3-6
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3 (A)They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong[a] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
(B)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
4 (C)Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every (D)brother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor (E)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.
6 Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
(F)they refuse to know me, declares the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
Jeremiah 7:8
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8 “Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.
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