Zephaniah 1:6
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6 (A)those who have turned back from following the Lord,
(B)who do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.”
Jeremiah 2:13
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13 for my people have committed two evils:
(A)they have forsaken (B)me,
the fountain of (C)living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Isaiah 1:4
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4 Ah, sinful nation,
a people laden with iniquity,
(A)offspring of evildoers,
children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
they have (B)despised (C)the Holy One of Israel,
they are utterly (D)estranged.
Jeremiah 15:6
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6 (A)You have rejected me, declares the Lord;
(B)you keep going backward,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
(C)I am weary of relenting.
Jeremiah 2:17
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17 (A)Have you not brought this upon yourself
by forsaking the Lord your God,
when (B)he led you in the way?
2 Peter 2:18-22
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18 For, (A)speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely (B)escaping from those who live in error. 19 They promise them (C)freedom, (D)but they themselves are slaves[a] of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. 20 For if, (E)after they have escaped the defilements of the world (F)through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, (G)the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For (H)it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from (I)the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The (J)dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
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- 2 Peter 2:19 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
Hebrews 10:38-39
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38 (A)but my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him.”
39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
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Hosea 11:7
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7 My people are bent (A)on turning away from me,
and though (B)they call out to the Most High,
he shall not raise them up at all.
Jeremiah 3:10
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10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me (A)with her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”
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Isaiah 9:13
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13 The people (A)did not turn to him who struck them,
nor inquire of the Lord of hosts.
Hosea 4:15-16
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Ezekiel 3:20
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20 (A)Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, (B)and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. (C)Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, (D)and his righteous deeds that he has done shall not be remembered, (E)but his blood I will require at your hand.
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Psalm 125:5
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5 But those who (A)turn aside to their (B)crooked ways
the Lord will lead away with (C)evildoers!
(D)Peace be upon Israel!
Psalm 10:4
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4 In the pride of his face[a] the wicked does not (A)seek him;[b]
all his thoughts are, (B)“There is no God.”
Footnotes
- Psalm 10:4 Or of his anger
- Psalm 10:4 Or the wicked says, “He will not call to account”
1 Samuel 15:11
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11 (A)“I regret[a] that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and (B)has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.
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- 1 Samuel 15:11 See also verses 29, 35
Hosea 7:7
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7 All of them are hot as an oven,
and they devour their rulers.
All (A)their kings (B)have fallen,
and none of them calls upon me.
Isaiah 43:22
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22 “Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob;
but (A)you have been weary of me, O Israel!
Psalm 36:3
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Psalm 14:2-3
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2 The Lord (A)looks down from heaven on the children of man,
to see if there are any who understand,[a]
who (B)seek after God.
3 They have all turned aside; together they have become (C)corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.
Footnotes
- Psalm 14:2 Or that act wisely
Romans 3:11
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11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
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