Thematic Bible: To justify wrongdoing
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Excuses » To justify wrongdoing » King saul for usurping the function of the priest
I said, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to Jehovah; and I forced myself, and offered up the burnt-offering.
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Excuses » To justify wrongdoing » Also for keeping the forbidden spoil
But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Jehovah thy God in Gilgal.
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Excuses » To justify wrongdoing » By adam for eating the forbidden fruit
And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.
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Excuses » To justify wrongdoing » Aaron for making the golden calf
And I said to them, Who has gold? They broke it off, and gave it me, and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
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Excuses » To justify wrongdoing » Sin absolutely inexcusable
for from the world's creation the invisible things of him are perceived, being apprehended by the mind through the things that are made, both his eternal power and divinity, so as to render them inexcusable.
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