Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

Approve their sayings

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Bible References

Folly

Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?'
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness."

Approve their sayings

Jeremiah 44:17
Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do. We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles.
Luke 11:47
Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.
Luke 16:27
So the rich man said, 'Then I beg you, father -- send Lazarus to my father's house

General references

Psalm 94:11
The Lord knows that peoples' thoughts are morally bankrupt.

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