Thematic Bible: To justify wrongdoing
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Excuses » To justify wrongdoing » King saul for usurping the function of the priest
I said, Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal, and I have made no prayer for help to the Lord: and so, forcing myself to do it, I made a burned offering.
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Excuses » To justify wrongdoing » Also for keeping the forbidden spoil
But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.
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Excuses » To justify wrongdoing » By adam for eating the forbidden fruit
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
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Excuses » To justify wrongdoing » Aaron for making the golden calf
Then I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let him take it off; so they gave it to me, and I put it in the fire, and this image of an ox came out.
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Excuses » To justify wrongdoing » Sin absolutely inexcusable
For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:
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