Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Impenitence » Warnings against
I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,' says the Lord.
However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention,
You also have done all these things, says the Lord, and I have spoken to you over and over again. But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent!
Then Jesus began to criticize openly the cities in which he had done many of his miracles, because they did not repent.
"But surely I gave you no food to eat in any of your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!
When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
"'If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,
The arrogance of Israel testifies against him, yet they refuse to return to the Lord their God! In spite of all this they refuse to seek him!
Pride » A hindrance to seeking God
The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks, "God won't hold me accountable; he doesn't care."
The arrogance of Israel testifies against him, yet they refuse to return to the Lord their God! In spite of all this they refuse to seek him!