¹⁶ But unto the ungodly sayeth God, "Why dost thou preach my laws, and takest my covenant in thy mouth, ¹⁷ whereas thou hatest to be reformed, and hast cast my words behind thee? ¹⁸ If thou seest a thief, thou runnest with him, and art partaker with the adulterers.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets, which exhorted them so earnestly, that they should convert unto thee, and did great blasphemies.

Proverbs 12:1

Whoso loveth wisdom, will be content to be reformed; but he that hateth to be reproved, is a fool.

1 Kings 14:9

but hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast gone and made the other gods and images of metal, to provoke me, and hast cast me behind thy back.

Proverbs 1:7

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

Proverbs 1:28-29

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

Proverbs 5:12-13

and then say, "Alas, why hated I nurture? Why did my heart despise correction?

Proverbs 8:36

But whoso offendeth against me, hurteth his own soul. All they that hate me, are the lovers of death."

Isaiah 5:23

These give sentence with the ungodly for rewards, but condemn the just cause of the righteous.

Jeremiah 8:9

therefore shall the wise be confounded. They shall be afraid and taken, for lo, they have cast out the word of the LORD: what wisdom can then be among them?

Jeremiah 18:12

But they say, 'No more of this, we will follow our own imaginations, and do every man according to the wilfulness of his own mind.'

Jeremiah 36:23-32

And when Jehudi had read three or four leaves thereof, he cut the book in pieces with a pen knife, and cast it into the fire upon the hearth, until the book was all burnt in the fire upon the hearth.

John 3:20

For every man that evil doeth, hateth the light: neither cometh to light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

Romans 1:28

And as it seemed not good unto them to be a known of God, even so God delivered them up unto a lewd mind, that they should do those things which were not comely,

Romans 2:21-23

But thou which teachest another, teachest not thyself. Thou preachest, a man should not steal: and yet thou stealest.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

and in all deceivableness of unrighteousness, among them that perish: because they received not the love of the truth, that they might have been saved.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

For the time will come, when they will not suffer wholesome doctrine: but after their own lusts shall they whose ears itch get them a heap of teachers,