¹⁶ But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, ¹⁷ seeing you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? ¹⁸ When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated 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 that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

Proverbs 12:1

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

1 Kings 14:9

but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:

Proverbs 1:7

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

Proverbs 1:28-29

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

Proverbs 5:12-13

and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Proverbs 8:36

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."

Isaiah 5:23

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what kind of wisdom is in them?

Jeremiah 18:12

But they say, 'It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.'"

Jeremiah 36:23-32

It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four columns, that the king cut it with a knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

John 3:20

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Romans 1:28

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God abandoned them to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Romans 2:21-23

You therefore who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;