87 Bible Verses about Infidelity To God
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Now the serpent was craftier than any of the wild animals Jehovah God had made. He said to the woman: Did God really say, you must not eat from any tree in the garden?
But Pharaoh responded: Who is Jehovah, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know Jehovah, and besides, I will not let Israel go.
They also complained to Moses: Was there not enough room in Egypt to bury us? Is that why you brought us out here to die in the desert? Why did you bring us out of Egypt?
He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the complaining of the children of Israel, and because they tested Jehovah, saying: Is Jehovah among us or not?
Any who sin deliberately, natives or foreigners, are guilty of treating Jehovah with contempt. They shall be put to death.
Be sure there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him. He would go stubbornly on his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike. Jehovah will never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of Jehovah and / His jealousy will burn against that man. Every curse which is written in this book will rest on him. Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and disrespectful. You got fat! You were stuffed! You over eat! He abandoned the God who made him and scornfully treated the rock of his salvation.
A man of God came to the king of Israel. He said: Jehovah says, 'Because the Aramaeans have said, Jehovah is a god of the hills and not of the valleys; I will give all this great army into your hands, and you will see that I am Jehovah.'
The prophet Zedekiah went to Micaiah and slapped his face. He asked: Since when did Jehovah's spirit leave me and speak to you?
Elisha left Jericho to go to Bethel. On the way some boys came out of a town and taunted and made fun of him. They shouted: Get out of here, baldy!
Messengers carried letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. The king's order said: Israelites should return to Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. Then he will return to the few of you who escaped from the power of the kings of Assyria.
So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, and as far as Zebulun, but they laughed them to scorn and mocked them.
Do not be fooled by Hezekiah! No god of any nation has been able to stand up to Assyria. Believe me, your God cannot keep you safe!'
They mocked God's messengers. They despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Jehovah became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them.
He shakes his fist at God and vaunts (brags) (shows off) himself against the Almighty, He defiantly charges against him with a thick, strong shield.
They say to God: 'Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.' Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what do we gain if we pray to him?
So you say: 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness? Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the dome of the heavens.'
They said to God: 'Leave us alone.' They asked: 'What can the Almighty do to us?'
Shall one who hates justice rule? And will you condemn the righteous Mighty One? Should anyone even say to a king: You good-for-nothing scoundrel! Or to nobles, you wicked people! The one who is righteous and mighty does not grant special favors to princes or prefer important people to poor people because his hands made them all.
Since you object to what God does, can you expect him to do what you want? The decision is yours, not mine. Tell us now what you think.
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of the scornful mockers.
Many are saying about me: Even with God on his side, he will not have victory (deliverance) (salvation).
Many are saying: Who will show us good? Lift up the light of your countenance (face) (presence) upon us, O Jehovah!
He says in his heart (to himself): God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He will never see it!
Jehovah will destroy every flattering lip and every bragging tongue They say: We will overcome with our tongues. With lips such as ours, who can be our master?
([Psalm of David]) The fool says in his heart: There is no God (Jehovah) (Psalm 10:4). They are corrupt. They do disgusting things. No one does good things.
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long: Where is your God?
When you did these things, I remained silent. That made you think I was like you. I will argue my point with you and lay it all out for you to see.
See what pours out of their mouths, swords from their lips! They think: Who will hear us?
They are determined to do evil, and they tell themselves: Let us set traps! No one can see us.
Then they spoke against God. They said: Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
They say: Jehovah does not see it. The God of Jacob does not even pay attention to it. Pay attention, you stupid (senseless) people! When will you become wise, you fools? God created ears. Do you think he cannot hear? He formed eyes. Do you think he cannot see?
They refused to enter the pleasant land. They did not believe what he said.
How long, you simple (stupid) (foolish) ones, will you love simplicity (foolishness) (stupidity)? The scoffers delight in scoffing. Fools hate knowledge!
He has no use for conceited people. He shows loving kindness to the humble.
When you are wise you are wise for yourself. When you scoff you bear it alone.
A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it. Knowledge is easy to him who discerns.
Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the back of fools.
The thought of foolishness is sin. The mocker is an abomination to men.
Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because what they say and what they do is against Jehovah! They are defiant in his honored presence.
Woe to those who scatter sin with cords of falsehood and iniquity with a cart rope! You say: Let Jehovah hurry up and do what he says he will, so that we can see it. Let Israel's holy God carry out his plans. Let us see what he has in mind.
You will go up in flames like straw and hay! You have rejected the law of the holy God Jehovah the All-Powerful Holy One of Israel. Now your roots will rot, and your blossoms will turn to dust. You are Jehovah's people, but you made him terribly angry, and he struck you with his mighty arm. Mountains shook, and dead bodies covered the streets like garbage. Jehovah is still angry. He is ready to strike you again.
Can an ax attack the person who cuts with it? Can a saw make itself greater than the person who saws with it? A rod cannot move the person who lifts it. A wooden stick cannot pick up a person.
Who is he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast? For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.
Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, Because you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge. We have hidden under falsehood!
I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plummet. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place. Your covenant with death will be annulled. Your agreement with the grave will not stand when the overflowing scourge passes through. Then you will be trampled down by it. As often as it passes through it will take you. Morning by morning it will pass over, and by day and by night. It will be a terror just to understand the report.read more.
The bed is too short on which to stretch out, and the cover so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it. Jehovah will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon. That he may do his work, his awesome work, and bring to pass his act, his unusual act. Do not be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong. For I have heard from the Sovereign Lord Jehovah of Hosts that destruction is determined (decreed) upon the whole earth.
You are in for trouble, if you try to hide your plans from Jehovah! You think what you do in the dark cannot be seen. So you ask: Who sees us, who knows us? You have it all backwards. A clay dish does not say to the potter, You did not make me. And should the one made say to the maker, You do not understand?
All who are cruel and arrogant will be extinguished. Those who live by crime will be removed.
Does a clay pot dare argue with its maker, a pot that is like all the others? Does the clay ask the potter what he is doing? Does the pot complain that its maker has no skill? Do we dare say to our parents: 'Why did you make me like this?'
You felt sure of yourself in your evil. You thought that no one could see you. Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray. Then you said to yourself: 'I am God! There is no one else like me.' Disaster will come upon you, and none of your magic can stop it. Ruin will come on you suddenly, ruin you never dreamed of!
With whom are you effeminate (self-indulgent)? With whom do you open wide your mouth and offer your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood and deceit?
Who frightened you? Who made you afraid, that you have lied and not remembered me? You did not take it to your heart. Is it not because I have held my peace from of old that you do not reverence (respect) me?
O you people of this generation consider the word of Jehovah! Have I been a wilderness, a land of thick darkness, for Israel? Why do my people say that they are free to wander around and no longer come to me?
They lied about Jehovah. They said: It is not he, bad things will not happen to us. We will not see sword or famine.
Look, they keep saying to me: Where is the word of Jehovah? Let it come now!
The nation of Moab will be destroyed. This is because they thought they were greater than Jehovah.
I will set traps for you, Babylon. You will be caught, but you will not know it. You will be found and captured because you have opposed Jehovah.
Call together the archers, the soldiers with bows, against Babylon. Set up blockades around it. Do not let anyone escape. Pay the people of Babylon back for what they have done. Do to them what they did to others. They have disobeyed Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel.
Jerusalem remembers in her days of sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things that were hers in the past. When her people were captive to the power of her adversary she had no helper. Her attackers desired her and made fun of her in her destruction.
He answered me: The wickedness of the nations of Israel and Judah is terrible! The land is filled with murder, and the city is filled with wrongdoing. They think that Jehovah has abandoned the land and that he does not see. But (my eye will not feel sorry) I will not have compassion or feel sorry. I will do to them what they have done to others.
Son of man, what is this proverb you people have concerning the land of Israel. You say: 'The days are long and every vision fails?'
What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel: 'The fathers eat sour grapes, but the children's teeth are set on edge?'
But the nation of Israel says: Jehovah's way is unfair. Is my way not fair, nation of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unfair?
Then I said: Oh no! Lord Jehovah, no! The people already say that I am only telling stories (a figure of speech or a parable).
The people of Israel say: 'Jehovah's way is not right.' I will judge each of you by your own ways, people of Israel.
Son of man, your people are talking about you by the walls and in the doorways of their homes. They are saying to each other: 'Let's go and hear the word that has come from Jehovah.'
'The Lord Jehovah says: Because the enemy has spoken against you, aha! And the everlasting heights have become our possession.
Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, zither, pipes, and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, good! But if you do not worship it you will be thrown into the midst of a blazing furnace that same hour. What god will be able to rescue you from my hand?
Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will boast about himself in his heart. In their security they will destroy many. He will even stand up against the prince of princes; but he will be destroyed without human power.
On the day of the king's celebration, the officials become drunk from the heat of wine, and the king joins mockers.
Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against me! I would redeem them, but they speak lies against me.
Although I trained (disciplined) and strengthened their arms (might) (power), yet they devise evil against me.
Woe to you who desire the day of Jehovah! What will the day of Jehovah mean to you? It is darkness, and not light.
Now hear the word of Jehovah: You say, do not prophesy against Israel, and do not speak against the house of Isaac.
My enemy will see it and she will be filled with shame. She will ask: Where is Jehovah your God? My eyes will look upon her and she will be trampled down like the mire of the streets.
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps. I will punish the men that are satisfied with their wayward lifestyle. They say in their heart, 'Jehovah will not do good and he will not do evil.'
This is how you despise me. You offer worthless food on my altar. Then you ask: 'How have we failed to respect you?' I tell you it is by showing contempt for my altar.
You have said terrible things about me, said Jehovah of Hosts. Yet you ask: 'What have we said about you?' You have said: 'There is no value to serve God. What is the use of doing what he says or of trying to show Jehovah of Hosts that we are sorry for what we have done?'
When the Pharisees heard it, they said: This man casts out demons by Beelzebub, the prince of the demons.
The servant who received one talent said: 'Lord, I knew you to be a hard man. You reap where you did not sow and gather where you did not scatter. I was afraid, so I hid your talent in the earth. See, you have what is yours.' But his lord answered: 'You wicked and lazy servant. You knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I did not scatter.read more.
You should have put my money in the bank. I should have received my money back plus interest.
People passing by spoke evil abuse to him. They wagged their heads and said, You who would destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God come down from the stake. In like manner the chief priests, scribes, and elders mocked him.read more.
They said: He saved others, but cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him now come down from the stake and we will believe in him. He trusts in God. Let him save him now if he wants him. After all he said: I am the Son of God. The robbers that were impaled with him also insulted him.
Then he said: You will no doubt say this proverb to me, physician heal yourself. That which we heard was done at Capernaum do also here in your own country.
