Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Their works
General references
Bible References
Webs
Isaiah 28:18
Thus the covenant that ye have made with death shall be done away: and the condition that ye made with hell, shall not stand. Yea, when the sore plague goeth forth, ye shall be trodden down under it.
Isaiah 30:12
Therefore, thus sayeth the holy one of Israel, "Insomuch as ye have cast off your beauty, and comforted yourselves with power and nimbleness, and put your confidence therein:
Job 8:14
His confidence shall be destroyed, for he trusteth in a spider's web.
Neither
Isaiah 30:1
Alas, for those disobedient children," sayeth the LORD, "that will take counsel without me. Alas, that they will take a secret advice, and not out of my spirit: and therefore add they sin unto sin.
Isaiah 57:12
Yea, verily, I will declare thy goodness and thy works, but they shall not profit thee.
Isaiah 64:6
We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, stained with the flux of a woman: we fall every and each one as the leaf, for our sins carry us away like the wind.
Romans 3:20
because that by the deeds of the law, shall no flesh be justified in the sight of God. For by the law cometh the knowledge of sin.
Romans 4:6
Even as David describeth the blessedfulness of the man, unto whom God ascribeth righteousness without deeds,
Revelation 3:17
because thou sayest thou art rich and increased with goods, and hast need of nothing, and knowest not how thou art wretched and miserable, poor, blind, and naked.
Their works
Isaiah 5:7
As for the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts, it is the house of Israel, and whole Judah his fair planting. Of these he looked for equity, but see there is wrong; for righteousness, lo, it is but misery.
Genesis 6:11
And the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and was full of mischief.
Psalm 58:2
But ye imagine mischief in your hearts, and your hands deal with wickedness.
Jeremiah 6:7
Like as a conduit aboundeth in water, even so this city aboundeth in wickedness. Robbery and unrighteousness is heard in her, sorrow and wounds are ever there in my sight.
Ezekiel 7:11
malicious violence is grown up, and the ungodly waxen to a staff. None of them shall remain over, none of their riches, not one of their seed: and no lamentation shall be made for them.
Amos 3:10
sayeth the LORD: they gather together evil gotten goods, and lay up robbery in their houses.'
Amos 6:3
Ye are taken out for the evil day, even ye that sit in the stole of willfulness;
Micah 2:1
Woe unto them that imagine to do harm, and devise ungraciousness upon their beds, to perform it in the clear day: for their power is against God.
Micah 3:1
Hear, O ye heads of the house of Jacob, and ye leaders of the house of Israel: Should not ye know, what were lawful and right?
Micah 6:12
among those that be full of riches unrighteously gotten: where the citizens deal with falsity, speak lies, and have deceitful tongues in their mouths?
Habakkuk 1:2
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? How long shall I complain unto thee, suffering wrong, and thou wilt not help?
Zephaniah 1:9
In the same day also will I visit all those that tread over the threshold so proudly, which fill their lords' house with robbery and falsity.
Zephaniah 3:3
Her rulers within her are as roaring lions: her judges are as wolves in the evening, which leave nothing behind them till the morrow.
General references
Isaiah 57:12
Yea, verily, I will declare thy goodness and thy works, but they shall not profit thee.
Acts 24:9
The Jews likewise affirmed, saying that it was even so.