Judges 17:13
New Living Translation
13 “I know the Lord will bless me now,” Micah said, “because I have a Levite serving as my priest.”
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Romans 10:2-3
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2 I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. 3 For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.
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Acts 26:9
New Living Translation
9 “I used to believe that I ought to do everything I could to oppose the very name of Jesus the Nazarene.[a]
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- 26:9 Or Jesus of Nazareth.
John 16:2
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2 For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing a holy service for God.
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Matthew 15:13
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13 Jesus replied, “Every plant not planted by my heavenly Father will be uprooted,
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Matthew 15:9
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9 Their worship is a farce,
for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’[a]”
Isaiah 66:3-4
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3 But those who choose their own ways—
delighting in their detestable sins—
will not have their offerings accepted.
When such people sacrifice a bull,
it is no more acceptable than a human sacrifice.
When they sacrifice a lamb,
it’s as though they had sacrificed a dog!
When they bring an offering of grain,
they might as well offer the blood of a pig.
When they burn frankincense,
it’s as if they had blessed an idol.
4 I will send them great trouble—
all the things they feared.
For when I called, they did not answer.
When I spoke, they did not listen.
They deliberately sinned before my very eyes
and chose to do what they know I despise.”
Isaiah 44:20
New Living Translation
20 The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes.
He trusts something that can’t help him at all.
Yet he cannot bring himself to ask,
“Is this idol that I’m holding in my hand a lie?”
Proverbs 14:12
New Living Translation
12 There is a path before each person that seems right,
but it ends in death.
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