¹⁶ As for the wicked, God says, "How dare you recite my statutes or speak about my covenant with your lips! ¹⁷ You hate instruction and toss my words behind you. ¹⁸ When you see a thief, you befriend him, and you keep company with adulterers.

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Nehemiah 9:26

"Then they disobeyed, rebelled against you, and threw your Law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who had admonished the people to return to you, committing terrible blasphemies.

Proverbs 12:1

The person who loves correction loves knowledge, but anyone who hates a rebuke is stupid.

1 Kings 14:9

"Instead, you have done more evil than everyone who lived before you. "You have gone out and crafted other gods for yourself. "You made cast images. "You have provoked me to anger. "You have thrown me behind your back.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Proverbs 1:28-29

"Then they will call out to me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.

Proverbs 5:12-13

and you will say, "How I hated instruction, and my heart rejected correction!

Proverbs 8:36

But whoever sins against me destroys himself; everyone who hates me loves death."

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of justice!"

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men will be put to shame. They'll be dismayed and taken captive. Look, they have rejected the message from the LORD! So what kind of wisdom do they have?

Jeremiah 18:12

But they'll say, "It's useless! We will follow our plans and each of us will pursue his own evil desires.'

Jeremiah 36:23-32

As Jehudi would read three or four columns, the king would cut it with a scribe's knife and throw it into the fire which was in the stove, until all the scroll was burned in the fire in the stove.

John 3:20

Everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.

Romans 1:28

Furthermore, because they did not think it worthwhile to keep knowing God fully, God delivered them to degraded minds to perform acts that should not be done.

Romans 2:21-23

as you teach others, do you fail to teach yourself? As you preach against stealing, do you steal?

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

and every type of evil to deceive those who are dying, those who refused to love the truth that would save them.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

For the time will come when people will not tolerate healthy doctrine, but with itching ears will surround themselves with teachers who cater to their people's own desires.

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