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how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

"If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth. (Selah)

Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

Then the Lord spoke about these people. "They truly love to go astray. They cannot keep from running away from me. So I am not pleased with them. I will now call to mind the wrongs they have done and punish them for their sins."

yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people's skin and rip the flesh from their bones.

Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false. And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.




When the time of mourning passed, David had her brought to his palace. She became his wife and she bore him a son. But what David had done upset the Lord.

Certainly you are not a God who approves of evil; evil people cannot dwell with you.


There are six things that the Lord hates, even seven things that are an abomination to him:

Do not plan evil in your hearts against one another. Do not favor a false oath -- these are all things that I hate,' says the Lord."



For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

I saw among the goods we seized a nice robe from Babylon, two hundred silver pieces, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels. I wanted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground right in the middle of my tent with the silver underneath."


"Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!"




Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon me and said to me, "Say: This is what the Lord says: 'This is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; I know what goes through your minds.



"Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.

You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see," says the Lord God.

They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.



Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon me and said to me, "Say: This is what the Lord says: 'This is what you are thinking, O house of Israel; I know what goes through your minds.



"Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.

You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see," says the Lord God.

They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.



how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

"If evil is sweet in his mouth and he hides it under his tongue,

You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking the truth. (Selah)

Those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

Then the Lord spoke about these people. "They truly love to go astray. They cannot keep from running away from me. So I am not pleased with them. I will now call to mind the wrongs they have done and punish them for their sins."

yet you hate what is good, and love what is evil. You flay my people's skin and rip the flesh from their bones.

Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false. And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.




When the time of mourning passed, David had her brought to his palace. She became his wife and she bore him a son. But what David had done upset the Lord.

Certainly you are not a God who approves of evil; evil people cannot dwell with you.


There are six things that the Lord hates, even seven things that are an abomination to him:

Do not plan evil in your hearts against one another. Do not favor a false oath -- these are all things that I hate,' says the Lord."



For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

I saw among the goods we seized a nice robe from Babylon, two hundred silver pieces, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels. I wanted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground right in the middle of my tent with the silver underneath."


"Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!"



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