Hosea 4:2-3
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2 (A)there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
they break all bounds, and (B)bloodshed follows bloodshed.
3 Therefore (C)the land mourns,
and all who dwell in it languish,
(D)and also the beasts of the field
and the birds of the heavens,
(E)and even the fish of the sea are taken away.
Psalm 107:34
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34 (A)a fruitful land into a salty waste,
because of the evil of its inhabitants.
Jeremiah 9:10
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10 “I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains,
and a lamentation for (A)the pastures of the wilderness,
(B)because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
and the lowing of cattle is not heard;
(C)both the birds of the air and the beasts
have fled and are gone.
Jeremiah 9:2
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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.
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- Jeremiah 9:2 Ch 9:1 in Hebrew
Jeremiah 5:7-8
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7 (A)“How can I pardon you?
Your children have forsaken me
(B)and have sworn by those who are no gods.
(C)When I fed them to the full,
(D)they committed adultery
(E)and trooped to the houses of whores.
8 They were well-fed, lusty stallions,
(F)each neighing (G)for his neighbor's wife.
Malachi 3:5
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5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be (A)a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those (B)who oppress the hired worker in his wages, (C)the widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.
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Ezekiel 22:9-11
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9 (A)There are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you (B)who eat on the mountains; (C)they commit lewdness in your midst. 10 In you (D)men uncover their fathers' nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 11 (E)One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; (F)another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; (G)another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter.
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Isaiah 24:6
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6 Therefore (A)a curse devours the earth,
and its inhabitants (B)suffer for their guilt;
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched,
and few men are left.
James 4:4
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4 (A)You adulterous people![a] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? (B)Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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- James 4:4 Or You adulteresses!
Hebrews 13:4
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4 (A)Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge (B)the sexually immoral and adulterous.
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1 Timothy 1:10
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10 the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers,[a] liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to (A)sound[b] doctrine,
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- 1 Timothy 1:10 That is, those who take someone captive in order to sell him into slavery
- 1 Timothy 1:10 Or healthy
Galatians 5:19-21
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19 Now (A)the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, (B)divisions, 21 envy,[a] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that (C)those who do[b] such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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- Galatians 5:21 Some manuscripts add murder
- Galatians 5:21 Or make a practice of doing
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
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9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous[a] will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: (A)neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,[b] 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
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- 1 Corinthians 6:9 Or wrongdoers
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 The two Greek terms translated by this phrase refer to the passive and active partners in consensual homosexual acts
Zechariah 5:3-4
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3 Then he said to me, “This is (A)the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who (B)steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who (C)swears falsely[a] shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. 4 I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of (D)him who swears falsely by my name. And (E)it shall remain in his house and (F)consume it, both timber and stones.”
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- Zechariah 5:3 Hebrew lacks falsely (supplied from verse 4)
Joel 1:10
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10 The fields are destroyed,
(A)the ground mourns,
because (B)the grain is destroyed,
(C)the wine dries up,
the oil languishes.
Lamentations 1:2-4
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2 (A)She weeps bitterly in the night,
with tears on her cheeks;
(B)among all her lovers
she has (C)none to comfort her;
(D)all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
they have become her enemies.
3 (E)Judah has gone into exile because of affliction[a]
and hard servitude;
(F)she dwells now among the nations,
(G)but finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
in the midst of her distress.[b]
4 The roads to Zion mourn,
for none come to (H)the festival;
(I)all her gates are desolate;
her priests (J)groan;
her virgins have been afflicted,[c]
and she herself suffers bitterly.
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- Lamentations 1:3 Or under affliction
- Lamentations 1:3 Or in the narrow passes
- Lamentations 1:4 Septuagint, Old Latin dragged away
Jeremiah 14:2
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2 (A)“Judah mourns,
and (B)her gates languish;
her people lament on the ground,
and (C)the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
Jeremiah 12:3-4
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3 (A)But you, O Lord, know me;
(B)you see me, and test my heart toward you.
(C)Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
and set them apart for (D)the day of slaughter.
4 (E)How long will the land mourn
and the grass of every field wither?
(F)For the evil of those who dwell in it
(G)the beasts and the birds are swept away,
because they said, “He will not see our latter end.”
Jeremiah 7:9
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9 (A)Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, (B)swear falsely, (C)make offerings to Baal, (D)and go after other gods that you have not known,
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