Isaiah 1:4
The sinful nation is as good as dead, the people weighed down by evil deeds. They are offspring who do wrong, children who do wicked things. They have abandoned the Lord, and rejected the Holy One of Israel. They are alienated from him.
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the Lord who commands armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 5:19
They say, "Let him hurry, let him act quickly, so we can see; let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take shape and come to pass, then we will know it!"
Jeremiah 2:13
"Do so because my people have committed a double wrong: they have rejected me, the fountain of life-giving water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, cracked cisterns which cannot even hold water."
Matthew 3:7
But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Genesis 13:13
(Now the people of Sodom were extremely wicked rebels against the Lord.)
Numbers 32:14
Now look, you are standing in your fathers' place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the Lord against the Israelites.
Deuteronomy 29:25
Then people will say, "Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 31:16
Then the Lord said to Moses, "You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
Deuteronomy 32:19
But the Lord took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.
Judges 10:10
The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord: "We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals."
Psalm 58:3
The wicked turn aside from birth; liars go astray as soon as they are born.
Psalm 78:8
Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.
Psalm 78:40
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the desert!
Psalm 89:18
For our shield belongs to the Lord, our king to the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 1:23
Your officials are rebels, they associate with thieves. All of them love bribery, and look for payoffs. They do not take up the cause of the orphan, or defend the rights of the widow.
Isaiah 3:8
Jerusalem certainly stumbles, Judah falls, for their words and their actions offend the Lord; they rebel against his royal authority.
Isaiah 10:6
I sent him against a godless nation, I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, to take plunder and to carry away loot, to trample them down like dirt in the streets.
Isaiah 12:6
Cry out and shout for joy, O citizens of Zion, for the Holy One of Israel acts mightily among you!"
Isaiah 14:20
You will not be buried with them, because you destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.
Isaiah 29:19
The downtrodden will again rejoice in the Lord; the poor among humankind will take delight in the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 30:9
For these are rebellious people -- they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the Lord's law.
Isaiah 30:11-12
Turn aside from the way, stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel."
Isaiah 30:15
For this is what the master, the Lord, the Holy One of Israel says: "If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered; if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength, but you are unwilling.
Isaiah 37:23
Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted and looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel!
Isaiah 41:14
Don't be afraid, despised insignificant Jacob, men of Israel. I am helping you," says the Lord, your protector, the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 41:16
You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away; the wind will scatter them. You will rejoice in the Lord; you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 41:20
I will do this so people will observe and recognize, so they will pay attention and understand that the Lord's power has accomplished this, and that the Holy One of Israel has brought it into being."
Isaiah 57:3-4
But approach, you sons of omen readers, you offspring of adulteresses and prostitutes!
Isaiah 65:3
These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.
Jeremiah 2:5
This is what the Lord says: "What fault could your ancestors have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to me.
Jeremiah 2:17
You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path.
Jeremiah 2:19
Your own wickedness will bring about your punishment. Your unfaithful acts will bring down discipline on you. Know, then, and realize how utterly harmful it was for you to reject me, the Lord your God, to show no respect for me," says the Lord God who rules over all.
Jeremiah 2:31
You people of this generation, listen to what the Lord says. "Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? Why then do you say, 'We are free to wander. We will not come to you any more?'
Jeremiah 2:33
"My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!
Jeremiah 7:19
But I am not really the one being troubled!" says the Lord. "Rather they are bringing trouble on themselves to their own shame!
Jeremiah 7:26
But your ancestors did not listen to me nor pay attention to me. They became obstinate and were more wicked than even their own forefathers.'"
Jeremiah 16:11-12
Then tell them that the Lord says, 'It is because your ancestors rejected me and paid allegiance to other gods. They have served them and worshiped them. But they have rejected me and not obeyed my law.
Jeremiah 50:29
"Call for archers to come against Babylon! Summon against her all who draw the bow! Set up camp all around the city! Do not allow anyone to escape! Pay her back for what she has done. Do to her what she has done to others. For she has proudly defied me, the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah 51:5
"For Israel and Judah will not be forsaken by their God, the Lord who rules over all. For the land of Babylonia is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.
Ezekiel 16:33
All prostitutes receive payment, but instead you give gifts to every one of your lovers. You bribe them to come to you from all around for your sexual favors!
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 23:33
You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
Acts 7:51-52
"You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!
Romans 8:7
because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.
1 Corinthians 10:22
Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?
Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for you, and I fill up in my physical body -- for the sake of his body, the church -- what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ.
Revelation 18:5
because her sins have piled up all the way to heaven and God has remembered her crimes.