Titus 1:16
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16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.(A)
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1 John 2:4
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4 Whoever says, “I have come to know him,” but does not obey his commandments is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;
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Isaiah 29:13
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13 The Lord said:
Because these people draw near with their mouths
and honor me with their lips,
while their hearts are far from me
and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,(A)
Ephesians 5:6
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6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on those who are disobedient.[a](A)
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- 5.6 Gk sons of disobedience
Ezekiel 33:31
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31 They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain.[a](A)
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- 33.31 Meaning of Heb uncertain
2 Timothy 3:5-8
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5 holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them! 6 For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate immature women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires,(A) 7 who are always studying yet never able to recognize truth. 8 As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people, of corrupt mind and counterfeit faith, also oppose the truth.(B)
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Jude 4
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4 For certain intruders have stolen in among you, people who long ago were designated for this condemnation as ungodly, who pervert the grace of our God into debauchery and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.[a](A)
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- 4 Or the only Master and our Lord Jesus Christ
Romans 1:28
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28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.(A)
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Revelation 21:27
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27 But nothing unclean will enter it, nor anyone who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(A)
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1 Samuel 15:22
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22 And Samuel said,
“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as in obedience to the voice of the Lord?
Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice
and to heed than the fat of rams.(A)
Revelation 21:8
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8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless,[a] the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,[b] the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”(A)
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1 Timothy 5:8
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8 And whoever does not provide for relatives, and especially for family members, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.(A)
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Isaiah 58:2
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2 Yet day after day they seek me
and delight to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness
and did not forsake the ordinance of their God;
they ask of me righteous judgments;
they want God on their side.[a](A)
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- 58.2 Or they delight to draw near to God
Isaiah 48:1
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God the Creator and Redeemer
48 Hear this, O house of Jacob,
who are called by the name of Israel
and who came forth from the loins[a] of Judah,
who swear by the name of the Lord
and invoke the God of Israel
but not in truth or right.(A)
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- 48.1 Cn: Heb waters
Romans 2:18-24
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18 and know his will and determine what really matters because you are instructed in the law, 19 and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth,(A) 21 you, then, who teach others, will you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?(B) 22 You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? 23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by your transgression of the law? 24 For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed[a] among the gentiles because of you.”(C)
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- 2.24 Or despised
1 Samuel 15:24
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24 Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.(A)
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1 Timothy 1:9
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9 this means understanding that the law is laid down not for the righteous but for the lawless and disobedient, for the godless and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers,(A)
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Hosea 8:2-3
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2 They cry to me,
“My God, we know you!”[a](A)
3 Israel has spurned the good;
the enemy shall pursue him.
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- 8.2 Gk Syr: Heb adds Israel
Job 15:16
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16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
one who drinks iniquity like water!(A)
Numbers 24:16
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16 the oracle of one who hears the words of God
and knows the knowledge of the Most High,[a]
who sees the vision of the Almighty,[b]
who falls down but with eyes uncovered:
Jeremiah 6:30
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30 They are called “rejected silver,”
for the Lord has rejected them.
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