Bible Cross References
and the heart
Exodus 12:33
The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country; they said, "We will all be dead if you don't leave."
Psalm 105:25
He made the Egyptians hate his people and treat his servants with deceit.
Why have we
Jeremiah 34:10-17
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All the people and their leaders agreed to free their slaves and never to enslave them again. They did set them free,
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but later they changed their minds, took them back, and forced them to become slaves again.
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the God of Israel, told me to say to the people: "I made a covenant with your ancestors when I rescued them from Egypt and set them free from slavery. I told them that
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every seven years they were to set free any Hebrew slave who had served them for six years. But your ancestors would not pay any attention to me or listen to what I said.
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Just a few days ago you changed your minds and did what pleased me. All of you agreed to set all Israelites free, and you made a covenant in my presence, in the Temple where I am worshiped.
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But then you changed your minds again and dishonored me. All of you took back the slaves whom you had set free as they desired, and you forced them into slavery again.
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So now, I, the LORD, say that you have disobeyed me; you have not given all Israelites their freedom. Very well, then, I will give you freedom: the freedom to die by war, disease, and starvation. I will make every nation in the world horrified at what I do to you.
Luke 11:24-26
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"When an evil spirit goes out of a person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one, it says to itself, 'I will go back to my house.'
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So it goes back and finds the house clean and all fixed up.
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Then it goes out and brings seven other spirits even worse than itself, and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning."
2 Peter 2:20-22
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If people have escaped from the corrupting forces of the world through their knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and then are again caught and conquered by them, such people are in worse condition at the end than they were at the beginning.
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It would have been much better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than to know it and then turn away from the sacred command that was given them.
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What happened to them shows that the proverbs are true: "A dog goes back to what it has vomited" and "A pig that has been washed goes back to roll in the mud."