Galatians 4:8
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Paul's Concern for the Galatians
8 Formerly, when you (A)did not know God, you (B)were enslaved to those that by nature (C)are not gods.
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Jeremiah 2:11
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11 (A)Has a nation changed its gods,
(B)even though they are no gods?
But my people (C)have changed their glory
for (D)that which does not profit.
Joshua 23:7
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7 (A)that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you (B)or make mention of the names of their gods (C)or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,
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Deuteronomy 32:21
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21 (A)They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger (B)with their idols.
So (C)I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with (D)a foolish nation.
Zephaniah 1:5
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5 (A)those who bow down on the roofs
to the host of the heavens,
(B)those who bow down and swear to the Lord
and yet swear by (C)Milcom,[a]
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 1:5 Or their king
1 Corinthians 8:4
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4 Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that (A)“an idol has no real existence,” and that (B)“there is no God but one.”
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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!
Jeremiah 12:16
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16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, (A)to swear by my name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, (B)then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.
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James 5:1-5
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Warning to the Rich
5 Come now, (A)you rich, weep and howl for the (B)miseries that are coming upon you. 2 (C)Your riches have rotted and (D)your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. (E)You have laid up treasure (F)in the last days. 4 Behold, (G)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and (H)the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of (I)the Lord of hosts. 5 (J)You have lived on the earth in luxury and (K)in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in (L)a day of slaughter.
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1 Corinthians 6:9
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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]
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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
Matthew 23:37-38
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Lament over Jerusalem
37 (A)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that (B)kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have (C)gathered (D)your children together (E)as a hen gathers her brood (F)under her wings, and (G)you were not willing! 38 See, (H)your house is left to you desolate.
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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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Amos 8:14
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14 Those who swear by (A)the Guilt of Samaria,
and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As (B)the Way of (C)Beersheba lives,’
they shall fall, and never rise again.”
Hosea 13:6
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6 (A)but when they had grazed,[a] they became full,
(B)they were filled, and their heart was lifted up;
(C)therefore they forgot me.
Footnotes
- Hosea 13:6 Hebrew according to their pasture
Hosea 11:8
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8 How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, O Israel?
(A)How can I make you (B)like Admah?
How can I treat you (C)like Zeboiim?
(D)My heart recoils within me;
my compassion grows warm and tender.
Hosea 7:4
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4 (A)They are all adulterers;
they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
from the kneading of the dough
until it is leavened.
Hosea 4:13-15
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13 (A)They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains
and burn offerings on the hills,
(B)under oak, poplar, and terebinth,
because their shade is good.
Therefore your daughters play the whore,
and your brides commit adultery.
14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore,
nor your brides when they commit adultery;
for (C)the men themselves go aside with prostitutes
and sacrifice with (D)cult prostitutes,
and a people (E)without understanding shall come to ruin.
15 Though you play the whore, O (F)Israel,
let not (G)Judah become guilty.
(H)Enter not into (I)Gilgal,
nor go up to (J)Beth-aven,
and swear not, “As the Lord lives.”
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 22:11
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11 (A)One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; (B)another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; (C)another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter.
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Ezekiel 16:49-50
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49 Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, (A)excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. 50 They were haughty and (B)did an abomination before me. So (C)I removed them, when I saw it.
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Jeremiah 29:22-23
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22 (A)Because of them (B)this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: “The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, (C)whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,” 23 because they have done an outrageous thing in Israel, (D)they have committed adultery with their neighbors' wives, and (E)they have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them. (F)I am the one who knows, (G)and I am witness, declares the Lord.’”
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Jeremiah 13:27
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27 I have seen (A)your abominations,
your adulteries and (B)neighings, your lewd whorings,
(C)on the hills in the field.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
How long will it be (D)before you are made clean?”
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