Thematic Bible: False shepherds, characteristics of
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Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Corrupt priests
When therefore the chief priests and attendants saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify, crucify. Pilate says to them, Take ye him, and crucify; for I find no fault in him.
And likewise also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said,
Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.
Her prophets vain-glorious men of treacheries: her priests defiled the holy place, they violated the law.
And the chief priests moved the crowd, that he would rather loose Barabbas to them.
The prophets prophesied in falsehood, and the priests will spread out with their hands; and my people loved it thus: and what will ye do to its last part
Her priests did violence to my law, and they will profane my holy place: between the holy to the profane they separated not, and they did not make known between the unclean to the clean, and from my Sabbath they hid their eyes, and I shall be profaned in the midst of them.
Hear this ye priests, and attend, ye house of Israel, and give ear, ye house of the king; for the judgment is to you, because ye were a snare to the watch tower and a net stretched out upon Tabor.
As troops waiting for a man, the company of priests will break in pieces the way with the shoulder: for they did wickedness.
And the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » False teachers, warnings against
And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction.
If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion;
In the hypocrisy of speaking falsely; burned with a hot iron in their own consciousness;
Wishing to be teachers of the law; neither understanding what they say, nor of certain things they are assured.
For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report;
Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.
Whoever therefore, should loose one of the least of these commands, and so teach men, he shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens: but whoever should do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.
But they worship me in vain, teaching doctrines the commands of men.
Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Prey upon the flock instead of feeding it
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, To the shepherds, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo! to the shepherds of Israel who were feeding themselves: shall not the shepherds feed the sheep? Ye will eat the fat, and ye will put on the wool, ye will sacrifice the fatlings: ye will not feed the sheep.
Wo! to the empty shepherd forsaking the sheep; the sword upon his arm, and upon his right eye: and his arm being dried up, shall be dried up, and his right eye being dim, shall be dim.
Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Insentiate and pleasure-loving
Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity. Come ye, I will take wine, and we will drink strong drink to excess; and the morrow being as this day, the remainder great exceedingly.
Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Lead the sheep astray
My people were lost sheep: their shepherds caused them to wander, they turned them away in the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their place to lie down.
Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Scatter the flock
For this, thus said Jehovah God of Israel, against the shepherds feeding my people: Ye scattered my flock and ye will thrust them away, and ye reviewed them not: behold me reviewing over you the evil of your doings, says Jehovah.
Leaders » False shepherds, characteristics of » Hirelings forsake the sheep
But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep.
Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » Corrupt priests
When therefore the chief priests and attendants saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify, crucify. Pilate says to them, Take ye him, and crucify; for I find no fault in him.
And likewise also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said,
Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.
Her prophets vain-glorious men of treacheries: her priests defiled the holy place, they violated the law.
And the chief priests moved the crowd, that he would rather loose Barabbas to them.
The prophets prophesied in falsehood, and the priests will spread out with their hands; and my people loved it thus: and what will ye do to its last part
Her priests did violence to my law, and they will profane my holy place: between the holy to the profane they separated not, and they did not make known between the unclean to the clean, and from my Sabbath they hid their eyes, and I shall be profaned in the midst of them.
Hear this ye priests, and attend, ye house of Israel, and give ear, ye house of the king; for the judgment is to you, because ye were a snare to the watch tower and a net stretched out upon Tabor.
As troops waiting for a man, the company of priests will break in pieces the way with the shoulder: for they did wickedness.
And the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » False teachers, warnings against
And also were there false prophets among the people, as also among you shall be false teachers, who shall privately bring in doctrines of perdition, and denying the master having purchased them, having brought upon themselves swift destruction.
If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion;
In the hypocrisy of speaking falsely; burned with a hot iron in their own consciousness;
Wishing to be teachers of the law; neither understanding what they say, nor of certain things they are assured.
For the time will be when they will not hear sound doctrine; but according to their own eager desires they will heap up to themselves teachers, feeling itchings for a report;
Who must be restrained, who subvert whole houses, teaching what they ought not, for the sake of sordid gain.
Whoever therefore, should loose one of the least of these commands, and so teach men, he shall be called least in the kingdom of the heavens: but whoever should do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.
But they worship me in vain, teaching doctrines the commands of men.
Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » Prey upon the flock instead of feeding it
Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, To the shepherds, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo! to the shepherds of Israel who were feeding themselves: shall not the shepherds feed the sheep? Ye will eat the fat, and ye will put on the wool, ye will sacrifice the fatlings: ye will not feed the sheep.
Wo! to the empty shepherd forsaking the sheep; the sword upon his arm, and upon his right eye: and his arm being dried up, shall be dried up, and his right eye being dim, shall be dim.
Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » Insentiate and pleasure-loving
Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber. And dogs hard of soul, they knew not fulness; and they are evil, they know not understanding; they all looked to their way, a man to his plunder from his extremity. Come ye, I will take wine, and we will drink strong drink to excess; and the morrow being as this day, the remainder great exceedingly.
Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » Lead the sheep astray
My people were lost sheep: their shepherds caused them to wander, they turned them away in the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their place to lie down.
Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » Scatter the flock
For this, thus said Jehovah God of Israel, against the shepherds feeding my people: Ye scattered my flock and ye will thrust them away, and ye reviewed them not: behold me reviewing over you the evil of your doings, says Jehovah.
Religious » False shepherds, characteristics of » Hirelings forsake the sheep
But the hired one, and not being the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and he leaves the sheep, and flees: and the wolf plunders them, and scatters the sheep.