So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.

When the king saw that the frogs were dead, he became stubborn again and, just as the LORD had said, the king would not listen to Moses and Aaron.

But even this time the king became stubborn, and again he would not let the people go.

But the LORD made the king stubborn and, just as the LORD had said, the king would not listen to Moses and Aaron.

The few of you who survive in the land of your enemies will waste away because of your own sin and the sin of your ancestors.

I will let it be overgrown with weeds. I will not trim the vines or hoe the ground; instead, I will let briers and thorns cover it. I will even forbid the clouds to let rain fall on it."

He saw a fig tree by the side of the road and went to it, but found nothing on it except leaves. So he said to the tree, "You will never again bear fruit!" At once the fig tree dried up.

So you actually admit that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets!

Go on, then, and finish up what your ancestors started!

"I have sinned by betraying an innocent man to death!" he said. "What do we care about that?" they answered. "That is your business!"

Judas threw the coins down in the Temple and left; then he went off and hanged himself.

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.

So then, God has mercy on anyone he wishes, and he makes stubborn anyone he wishes.

And so God sends the power of error to work in them so that they believe what is false.

The result is that all who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in sin, will be condemned.

And he said to me, "Do not keep the prophetic words of this book a secret, because the time is near when all this will happen.

Whoever is evil must go on doing evil, and whoever is filthy must go on being filthy; whoever is good must go on doing good, and whoever is holy must go on being holy."

He loved to curse---may he be cursed! He hated to give blessings---may no one bless him!

May they cover him like clothes and always be around him like a belt!

Alexander the metalworker did me great harm; the Lord will reward him according to what he has done.

The LORD will bless them and save them; God will declare them innocent.

Even though you are kind to the wicked, they never learn to do what is right. Even here in a land of righteous people they still do wrong; they refuse to recognize your greatness.

while God's people, who were seeking a law that would put them right with God, did not find it.

I can assure you that they are deeply devoted to God; but their devotion is not based on true knowledge.

They have not known the way in which God puts people right with himself, and instead, they have tried to set up their own way; and so they did not submit themselves to God's way of putting people right.