Nehemiah 9:29
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29 (A)And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet (B)they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, (C)which if a person does them, he shall live by them, (D)and they turned a stubborn shoulder (E)and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
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Nehemiah 9:16
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16 “But they and our fathers (A)acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.
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Leviticus 18:5
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5 (A)You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; (B)if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord.
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Nehemiah 9:10
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10 (A)and performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that (B)they acted arrogantly against our fathers. And (C)you made a name for yourself, as it is to this day.
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James 4:6-10
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6 But (A)he gives more grace. Therefore it says, (B)“God opposes the proud but (C)gives grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. (D)Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 (E)Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. (F)Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and (G)purify your hearts, (H)you double-minded. 9 (I)Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 (J)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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Zechariah 7:11-12
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11 But (A)they refused to pay attention (B)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a] 12 (C)They made their hearts diamond-hard (D)lest they should hear the law and the words that the Lord of hosts had sent (E)by his Spirit through (F)the former prophets. (G)Therefore great anger came from the Lord of hosts.
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- Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear
Hosea 6:5
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5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have slain them (A)by the words of my mouth,
and my judgment goes forth as the light.
Jeremiah 43:2
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2 Azariah the son of (A)Hoshaiah and (B)Johanan the son of Kareah and (C)all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The Lord our God did not send you to say, (D)‘Do not go to Egypt to live there,’
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Galatians 3:12
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12 But the law is not of faith, rather (A)“The one who does them shall live by them.”
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Romans 10:5
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The Message of Salvation to All
5 For (A)Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that (B)the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
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Luke 10:28
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28 And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; (A)do this, and you will live.”
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Daniel 5:20
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20 But (A)when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, (B)he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.
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Ezekiel 20:11
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11 (A)I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, (B)by which, if a person does them, he shall live.
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Jeremiah 44:16-17
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16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, (A)we will not listen to you. 17 (B)But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to (C)the queen of heaven (D)and pour out drink offerings to her, (E)as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.
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Jeremiah 44:10
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10 They have not humbled themselves even to this day, (A)nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.
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Jeremiah 25:3-7
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3 “For twenty-three years, (A)from the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken (B)persistently to you, (C)but you have not listened. 4 (D)You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the Lord (E)persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets, 5 saying, (F)‘Turn now, every one of you, (G)from his evil way and evil deeds, and (H)dwell upon the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers from of old and forever. 6 (I)Do not go after other gods to serve and worship them, (J)or provoke me to anger (K)with the work of your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’ 7 (L)Yet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord, (M)that you might provoke me to anger (N)with the work of your hands to your own harm.
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Jeremiah 19:15
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15 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I am bringing upon this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, (A)because they have stiffened their neck, (B)refusing to hear my words.”
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Jeremiah 17:23
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23 Yet (A)they did not listen or incline their ear, (B)but stiffened their neck, that they (C)might not hear and receive instruction.
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Jeremiah 13:15-17
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Exile Threatened
15 Hear and give ear; be not proud,
for the Lord has spoken.
16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
(B)before he brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the twilight mountains,
and (C)while you look for light
he turns it into gloom
and makes it (D)deep darkness.
17 But if you will not listen,
(E)my soul will weep in secret for your pride;
my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears,
because the Lord's flock has been taken captive.
Jeremiah 7:26
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26 (A)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, (B)but stiffened their neck. (C)They did worse than their fathers.
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2 Chronicles 36:15
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15 The Lord, the God of their fathers, (A)sent persistently to them by his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.
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2 Chronicles 24:19
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19 (A)Yet he sent prophets among them to bring them back to the Lord. (B)These testified against them, but they would not pay attention.
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2 Kings 17:13
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13 Yet the Lord (A)warned Israel and Judah (B)by every prophet (C)and every seer, saying, (D)“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”
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Deuteronomy 31:21
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21 And when many evils and troubles have come upon them, this song shall confront them as (A)a witness (for it will live unforgotten in the mouths of their offspring). For (B)I know what they are inclined to do even today, before I have brought them into the land that I swore to give.”
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