Psalm 14:4
New Living Translation
4 Will those who do evil never learn?
They eat up my people like bread
and wouldn’t think of praying to the Lord.
Jeremiah 10:25
New Living Translation
25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to acknowledge you—
on the peoples that do not call upon your name.
For they have devoured your people Israel[a];
they have devoured and consumed them,
making the land a desolate wilderness.
Psalm 79:6
New Living Translation
6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that refuse to acknowledge you—
on kingdoms that do not call upon your name.
Isaiah 64:7
New Living Translation
7 Yet no one calls on your name
or pleads with you for mercy.
Therefore, you have turned away from us
and turned us over[a] to our sins.
Footnotes
- 64:7 As in Greek, Syriac, and Aramaic versions; Hebrew reads melted us.
Romans 1:28
New Living Translation
28 Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done.
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Amos 8:4
New Living Translation
4 Listen to this, you who rob the poor
and trample down the needy!
Psalm 82:5
New Living Translation
5 But these oppressors know nothing;
they are so ignorant!
They wander about in darkness,
while the whole world is shaken to the core.
Psalm 27:2
New Living Translation
2 When evil people come to devour me,
when my enemies and foes attack me,
they will stumble and fall.
Ephesians 4:17-18
New Living Translation
Living as Children of Light
17 With the Lord’s authority I say this: Live no longer as the Gentiles do, for they are hopelessly confused. 18 Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against him.
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Galatians 5:15
New Living Translation
15 But if you are always biting and devouring one another, watch out! Beware of destroying one another.
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2 Corinthians 4:3-4
New Living Translation
3 If the Good News we preach is hidden behind a veil, it is hidden only from people who are perishing. 4 Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.
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Micah 3:2-3
New Living Translation
2 but you are the very ones
who hate good and love evil.
You skin my people alive
and tear the flesh from their bones.
3 Yes, you eat my people’s flesh,
strip off their skin,
and break their bones.
You chop them up
like meat for the cooking pot.
Hosea 7:7
New Living Translation
7 Burning like an oven,
they consume their leaders.
They kill their kings one after another,
and no one cries to me for help.
Isaiah 45:20
New Living Translation
20 “Gather together and come,
you fugitives from surrounding nations.
What fools they are who carry around their wooden idols
and pray to gods that cannot save!
Isaiah 44:19-20
New Living Translation
19 The person who made the idol never stops to reflect,
“Why, it’s just a block of wood!
I burned half of it for heat
and used it to bake my bread and roast my meat.
How can the rest of it be a god?
Should I bow down to worship a piece of wood?”
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?”
Isaiah 29:14
New Living Translation
14 Because of this, I will once again astound these hypocrites
with amazing wonders.
The wisdom of the wise will pass away,
and the intelligence of the intelligent will disappear.”
Isaiah 27:11
New Living Translation
11 The people are like the dead branches of a tree,
broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots.
Israel is a foolish and stupid nation,
for its people have turned away from God.
Therefore, the one who made them
will show them no pity or mercy.
Isaiah 5:13
New Living Translation
13 So my people will go into exile far away
because they do not know me.
Those who are great and honored will starve,
and the common people will die of thirst.
Psalm 94:8-9
New Living Translation
8 Think again, you fools!
When will you finally catch on?
9 Is he deaf—the one who made your ears?
Is he blind—the one who formed your eyes?
Job 27:10
New Living Translation
10 Can they take delight in the Almighty?
Can they call to God at any time?
Romans 1:21-22
New Living Translation
21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.
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Job 21:15
New Living Translation
15 Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him?
What good will it do us to pray?’
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