¹⁶ But God says to the wicked:
“What right do you have to recite My statutes
and to take My covenant on your lips?
¹⁷ You hate instruction
and turn your back on My words.
¹⁸ When you see a thief,
you make friends with him,
and you associate with adulterers.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You.
They flung Your law behind their backs
and killed Your prophets
who warned them
in order to turn them back to You.
They committed terrible blasphemies.

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge,
but one who hates correction is stupid.

1 Kings 14:9

You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you. In order to provoke Me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images, but you have flung Me behind your back.

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Proverbs 1:28-29

Then they will call me, but I won’t answer;
they will search for me, but won’t find me.

Proverbs 5:12-13

and you will say, “How I hated discipline,
and how my heart despised correction.

Proverbs 8:36

but the one who misses me harms himself;
all who hate me love death.”

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe
and deprive the innocent of justice.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise will be put to shame;
they will be dismayed and snared.
They have rejected the word of the Lord,
so what wisdom do they really have?

Jeremiah 18:12

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless. We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

Jeremiah 36:23-32

As soon as Jehudi would read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut the scroll with a scribe’s knife and throw the columns into the blazing fire until the entire scroll was consumed by the fire in the brazier.

John 3:20

For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

Romans 1:28

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

Romans 2:21-23

you then, who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach, “You must not steal”—do you steal?

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new.

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