Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Gone away backward

Bible References

Ah sinful

Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all you who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest!
Acts 7:51
O! stubborn race, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still.
Revelation 18:5
For her sins are heaped up to the heavens, and God has not forgotten her misdeeds.

A seed

Matthew 3:7
When, however, John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to receive his baptism, he said to them: "You brood of vipers! Who has prompted you to seek refuge from the coming judgment?
Matthew 23:33
You serpents and brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to the Pit?

Provoked

1 Corinthians 10:22
Or 'are we to rouse the jealousy of the Lord'? Are we stronger than he?

Gone away backward

Romans 8:7
Because to be earthly-minded is to be an enemy to God, for such a mind does not submit to the Law of God, nor indeed can it do so.
Colossians 1:24
Now at last I can rejoice in my sufferings on your behalf, and in my own person I supplement the afflictions endured by the Christ, for the sake of his Body, the Church;