Jeremiah 6:10
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10 To whom shall I speak and give warning,
that they may hear?
See, their ears are closed;[a]
they cannot listen.
The word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn;
they take no pleasure in it.(A)
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- 6.10 Heb are uncircumcised
Acts 7:51
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51 “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.(A)
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John 7:7
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7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its works are evil.(A)
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Jeremiah 7:26
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26 yet they did not listen to me or pay attention, but they stiffened their necks. They did worse than their ancestors did.(A)
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Hebrews 11:7
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7 By faith Noah, warned by God about events as yet unseen, respected the warning and built an ark to save his household; by this he condemned the world and became an heir to the righteousness that is in accordance with faith.(A)
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Isaiah 53:1
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53 Who has believed what we have heard?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?(A)
Exodus 6:12
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12 But Moses spoke to the Lord, “The Israelites have not listened to me; why should Pharaoh listen to me, poor speaker that I am?”[a]
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- 6.12 Heb me? I am uncircumcised of lips
2 Timothy 4:3
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3 For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound teaching, but, having their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires(A)
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Colossians 1:28
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28 It is he whom we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature in Christ.[a](A)
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- 1.28 Other ancient authorities add Jesus
Romans 7:22
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22 For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self,(A)
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Acts 7:60
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60 Then he knelt down and cried out in a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” When he had said this, he died.[a](A)
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- 7.60 Gk fell asleep
John 9:40
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40 Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not blind, are we?”(A)
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Luke 20:19
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19 When the scribes and chief priests realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to lay hands on him at that very hour, but they feared the people.(A)
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Luke 11:45
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45 One of the experts in the law answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us, too.”
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Matthew 3:7
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7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his[a] baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?(A)
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- 3.7 Other ancient authorities lack his
Amos 7:10
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10 Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the very center of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.(A)
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Ezekiel 33:9
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9 But if you warn the wicked to turn from their ways and they do not turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but you will have saved your life.(A)
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Ezekiel 33:3
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3 and if the sentinel sees the sword coming upon the land and blows the trumpet and warns the people,(A)
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Ezekiel 3:18-21
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18 When I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” and you give them no warning and do not speak to warn the wicked from their wicked way in order to save their lives, those wicked persons shall die for their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand.(A) 19 But if you warn the wicked and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their wicked way, they shall die for their iniquity, but you will have saved your life.(B) 20 Again, if the righteous turn from their righteousness and commit iniquity and I lay a stumbling block before them, they shall die; because you have not warned them, they shall die for their sin, and their righteous deeds that they have done shall not be remembered, but their blood I will require at your hand.(C) 21 If, however, you warn the righteous not to sin and they do not sin, they shall surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved your life.(D)
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Jeremiah 20:8-9
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8 For whenever I speak, I must cry out;
I must shout, “Violence and destruction!”
For the word of the Lord has become for me
a reproach and derision all day long.(A)
9 If I say, “I will not mention him
or speak any more in his name,”
then within me there is something like a burning fire
shut up in my bones;
I am weary with holding it in,
and I cannot.(B)
Jeremiah 5:4-5
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4 Then I said, “These are only the poor;
they have no sense,
for they do not know the way of the Lord,
the law of their God.(A)
5 Let me go to the rich[a]
and speak to them;
surely they know the way of the Lord,
the law of their God.”
But they all alike had broken the yoke;
they had burst the bonds.(B)
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- 5.5 Or the great
Jeremiah 4:4
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4 Circumcise yourselves to the Lord;
remove the foreskin of your hearts,
O people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,
or else my wrath will go forth like fire
and burn with no one to quench it,
because of the evil of your doings.(A)
Isaiah 42:23-25
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23 Who among you will give heed to this;
who will attend and listen for the time to come?
24 Who gave up Jacob to the spoiler
and Israel to the robbers?
Was it not the Lord, against whom they sinned,[a]
in whose ways they would not walk,
and whose law they would not obey?(A)
25 So he poured upon him the heat of his anger
and the fury of war;
it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand;
it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.(B)
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- 42.24 Gk Tg: Heb we sinned
Isaiah 28:9-13
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9 “Whom will he teach knowledge,
and to whom will he explain the message?
Those who are weaned from milk,
those taken from the breast?(A)
10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.”[a](B)
11 Truly, with stammering lip
and with another tongue
he will speak to this people,(C)
12 to whom he has said,
“This is rest;
give rest to the weary,
and this is repose,”
yet they would not hear.(D)
13 Therefore the word of the Lord will be to them,
“Precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,”[b]
in order that they may go and fall backward
and be broken and snared and taken.(E)
Isaiah 6:9-10
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9 And he said, “Go and say to this people:
‘Keep listening, but do not comprehend;
keep looking, but do not understand.’(A)
10 Make the mind of this people dull,
and stop their ears,
and shut their eyes,
so that they may not look with their eyes
and listen with their ears
and comprehend with their minds
and turn and be healed.”(B)
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