Isaiah 43:27

Despite The People Of Israel's Past Sin, The Lord Will Forgive Them

²⁶ Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right. ²⁷ Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word. ²⁸ Your chiefs have made my holy place unclean, so I have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a thing of shame.

Sinned Against Me

Jacob

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?

Isaiah 28:7

And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

Ezekiel 16:3

And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem: Your start and your birth was from the land of the Canaanite; an Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite.

Numbers 32:14

And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

Psalm 78:8

And not be like their fathers, a stiff-necked and uncontrolled generation; a generation whose heart was hard, whose spirit was not true to God.

Psalm 106:6-7

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

Isaiah 3:12

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

Isaiah 9:15

The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.

Isaiah 56:10-12

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

Jeremiah 3:25

Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

Jeremiah 23:11-15

For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.

Lamentations 4:13-14

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

Ezekiel 22:25-28

Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.

Hosea 4:6

Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.

Micah 3:11

Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

Zechariah 1:4-6

Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.

Malachi 2:4-8

And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.

Malachi 3:7

From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back?

Matthew 15:14

Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

Matthew 27:1

Now when it was morning, all the chief priests and those in authority took thought together with the purpose of putting Jesus to death.

Matthew 27:41

In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said,

John 11:49-53

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, You have no knowledge of anything;

Acts 5:17-18

But the high priest and those who were with him (the Sadducees) were full of envy,

Acts 7:51

You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

Romans 5:12

For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil: