Psalm 17:10
New Living Translation
10 They are without pity.
Listen to their boasting!
1 Samuel 2:3
New Living Translation
3 “Stop acting so proud and haughty!
Don’t speak with such arrogance!
For the Lord is a God who knows what you have done;
he will judge your actions.
Psalm 123:4
New Living Translation
4 We have had more than our fill of the scoffing of the proud
and the contempt of the arrogant.
Psalm 31:18
New Living Translation
18 Silence their lying lips—
those proud and arrogant lips that accuse the godly.
Revelation 13:5-6
New Living Translation
5 Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God. And he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for forty-two months. 6 And he spoke terrible words of blasphemy against God, slandering his name and his dwelling—that is, those who dwell in heaven.[a]
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- 13:6 Some manuscripts read and his dwelling and all who dwell in heaven.
Matthew 13:15
New Living Translation
15 For the hearts of these people are hardened,
and their ears cannot hear,
and they have closed their eyes—
so their eyes cannot see,
and their ears cannot hear,
and their hearts cannot understand,
and they cannot turn to me
and let me heal them.’[a]
Footnotes
- 13:14-15 Isa 6:9-10 (Greek version).
2 Peter 2:18
New Living Translation
18 They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With an appeal to twisted sexual desires, they lure back into sin those who have barely escaped from a lifestyle of deception.
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Acts 28:27
New Living Translation
27 For the hearts of these people are hardened,
and their ears cannot hear,
and they have closed their eyes—
so their eyes cannot see,
and their ears cannot hear,
and their hearts cannot understand,
and they cannot turn to me
and let me heal them.’[a]
Footnotes
- 28:26-27 Isa 6:9-10 (Greek version).
Isaiah 6:10
New Living Translation
10 Harden the hearts of these people.
Plug their ears and shut their eyes.
That way, they will not see with their eyes,
nor hear with their ears,
nor understand with their hearts
and turn to me for healing.”[a]
Footnotes
- 6:9-10 Greek version reads And he said, “Go and say to this people, / ‘When you hear what I say, you will not understand. / When you see what I do, you will not comprehend.’ / For the hearts of these people are hardened, / and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes— / so their eyes cannot see, / and their ears cannot hear, / and their hearts cannot understand, / and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them.” Compare Matt 13:14-15; Mark 4:12; Luke 8:10; Acts 28:26-27.
Psalm 119:70
New Living Translation
70 Their hearts are dull and stupid,
but I delight in your instructions.
Psalm 73:7-9
New Living Translation
7 These fat cats have everything
their hearts could ever wish for!
8 They scoff and speak only evil;
in their pride they seek to crush others.
9 They boast against the very heavens,
and their words strut throughout the earth.
Job 15:27
New Living Translation
27 “These wicked people are heavy and prosperous;
their waists bulge with fat.
Exodus 15:9
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9 “The enemy boasted, ‘I will chase them
and catch up with them.
I will plunder them
and consume them.
I will flash my sword;
my powerful hand will destroy them.’
Exodus 5:2
New Living Translation
2 “Is that so?” retorted Pharaoh. “And who is the Lord? Why should I listen to him and let Israel go? I don’t know the Lord, and I will not let Israel go.”
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Psalm 12:3-4
New Living Translation
3 May the Lord cut off their flattering lips
and silence their boastful tongues.
4 They say, “We will lie to our hearts’ content.
Our lips are our own—who can stop us?”
Deuteronomy 32:15
New Living Translation
15 “But Israel[a] soon became fat and unruly;
the people grew heavy, plump, and stuffed!
Then they abandoned the God who had made them;
they made light of the Rock of their salvation.
Footnotes
- 32:15 Hebrew Jeshurun, a term of endearment for Israel.
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