¹⁶ But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips? ¹⁷ “For you hate discipline,
And you cast My words behind you.
¹⁸ If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

"Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

1 Kings 14:9

but you have done evil above all who were before you and have gone and made for yourself other gods and metal images, provoking me to anger, and have cast me behind your back,

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:28-29

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

Proverbs 5:12-13

and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Proverbs 8:36

but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death."

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?

Jeremiah 18:12

"But they say, 'That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

Jeremiah 36:23-32

As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a knife and throw them into the fire in the fire pot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire pot.

John 3:20

For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

Romans 2:21-23

you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

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