Zephaniah 3:2
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2 She listens to no voice;
(A)she accepts no correction.
(B)She does not trust in the Lord;
she does not draw near to her God.
Jeremiah 22:21
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21 I spoke to you in your prosperity,
but you said, ‘I will not listen.’
(A)This has been your way from (B)your youth,
that you have not obeyed my voice.
Jeremiah 5:3
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3 O Lord, do not your eyes look for truth?
(A)You have struck them down,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
(B)They have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to repent.
Jeremiah 7:23-28
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23 But this command I gave them: (A)‘Obey my voice, and (B)I will be your God, and you shall be my people. (C)And walk in all the way that I command you, (D)that it may be well with you.’ 24 (E)But they did not obey or incline their ear, (F)but walked in their own counsels and (G)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and (H)went backward and not forward. 25 From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, (I)I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. 26 (J)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, (K)but stiffened their neck. (L)They did worse than their fathers.
27 (M)“So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. (N)You shall call to them, but they will not answer you. 28 And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, and did not accept discipline; (O)truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
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Jeremiah 32:33
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33 (A)They have turned to me their back and not their face. And though I have taught them (B)persistently, they have not listened (C)to receive instruction.
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Jeremiah 2:30
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30 In vain have I (A)struck your children;
they took no correction;
(B)your own sword devoured your prophets
like a ravening lion.
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!
Isaiah 29:13
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13 And the Lord said:
“Because (A)this people (B)draw near with their mouth
and honor me with their lips,
while their hearts are far from me,
and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,
Proverbs 5:12
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Psalm 78:22
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22 because they (A)did not believe in God
and did not trust his saving power.
Psalm 73:28
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28 But for me it is good to (A)be near God;
I have made the Lord God my (B)refuge,
that I may (C)tell of all your works.
Psalm 50:17
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Hebrews 10:22
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22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts (A)sprinkled clean (B)from an evil conscience and our bodies (C)washed with pure water.
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John 3:18-19
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18 (A)Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not (B)believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 (C)And this is the judgment: (D)the light has come into the world, and (E)people loved the darkness rather than the light because (F)their works were evil.
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Zechariah 7:11-14
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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. 13 (H)“As I[b] called, and they would not hear, (I)so they called, and I would not hear,” says the Lord of hosts, 14 (J)“and I scattered them with a whirlwind among all (K)the nations that they had not known. (L)Thus the land they left was desolate, (M)so that no one went to and fro, (N)and the pleasant land was made desolate.”
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- Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear
- Zechariah 7:13 Hebrew he
Ezekiel 24:13
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13 On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, (A)you shall not be cleansed anymore till (B)I have satisfied my fury upon you.
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Jeremiah 35:17
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17 Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster that I have pronounced against them, (A)because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, (B)I have called to them and they have not answered.”
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Jeremiah 35:13
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13 “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Go and say to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, (A)Will you not receive instruction and listen to my words? declares the Lord.
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Jeremiah 17:5-6
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5 Thus says the Lord:
“Cursed is the man (A)who trusts in man
and makes flesh his strength,[a]
whose heart turns away from the Lord.
6 (B)He is like a shrub in the desert,
(C)and shall not see any good come.
He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness,
in (D)an uninhabited salt land.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 17:5 Hebrew arm
Isaiah 31:1
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Woe to Those Who Go Down to Egypt
31 Woe[a] to (A)those who go down to Egypt for help
and rely on horses,
who (B)trust in chariots because they are many
and in horsemen because they are very strong,
but (C)do not look to the Holy One of Israel
or consult the Lord!
Footnotes
- Isaiah 31:1 Or Ah,
Isaiah 30:1-3
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Do Not Go Down to Egypt
30 “Ah, (A)stubborn children,” declares the Lord,
(B)“who carry out a plan, but not mine,
and who make (C)an alliance,[a] but not of my Spirit,
that they may add sin to sin;
2 (D)who set out to go down to Egypt,
without asking for my direction,
to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh
and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
3 (E)Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame,
and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 30:1 Hebrew who weave a web
Isaiah 1:5
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5 Why will you still be (A)struck down?
Why will you (B)continue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
and the whole heart faint.
Proverbs 1:7
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7 (A)The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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”
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