Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Punishment of the The Wicked » On account of their » Rejection of the law of God
For rebellion is as the sin of divination, And selfwill is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He hath also rejected thee from being king.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; for thou hast rejected knowledge, and I will reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me; seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children. As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame. They eat the sin of my people, and their soul longeth for their iniquity. read more.
And it shall be as the people so the priest; and I will visit their ways upon them, and recompense to them their doings;
And it shall be as the people so the priest; and I will visit their ways upon them, and recompense to them their doings;
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But that word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog has turned back to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to her rolling in mud.
I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; as first-ripe fruit on the fig-tree, I saw your fathers at the beginning: they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and became abominations like their lover.
And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil. For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge is there for a reward; and the great man uttereth his soul's greed: and together they combine it.
who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil;
in which also going he preached to the spirits which are in prison, heretofore disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was preparing, into which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:
As a dog turneth back to its vomit, so a fool repeateth his folly.
How much less the abominable and corrupt, man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
Thus saith Jehovah to this people: Even so have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet; and Jehovah hath no delight in them: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.
He that shutteth his eyes, it is to devise froward things; biting his lips, he bringeth evil to pass.
It is as sport to a foolish man to do wickedness; but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
because they rejected mine ordinances and walked not in my statutes, and profaned my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth and he hide it under his tongue, Though he spare it, and forsake it not, but keep it within his mouth,
for they loved glory from men rather than glory from God.