Bible Cross References
What
Judges 6:13
Gideon said to him, "If I may ask, sir, why has all this happened to us if the LORD is with us? What happened to all the wonderful things that our fathers told us the LORD used to do---how he brought them out of Egypt? The LORD has abandoned us and left us to the mercy of the Midianites."
Jeremiah 44:17-19
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We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as we and our ancestors, our king and our leaders, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.
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But ever since we stopped sacrificing to the Queen of Heaven and stopped pouring out wine offerings to her, we have had nothing, and our people have died in war and of starvation."
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And the women added, "When we baked cakes shaped like the Queen of Heaven, offered sacrifices to her, and poured out wine offerings to her, our husbands approved of what we were doing."
wisely
Genesis 6:11
but everyone else was evil in God's sight, and violence had spread everywhere.
Genesis 6:12
God looked at the world and saw that it was evil, for the people were all living evil lives.
Psalm 14:2
The LORD looks down from heaven at us humans to see if there are any who are wise, any who worship him.
Psalm 14:3
But they have all gone wrong; they are all equally bad. Not one of them does what is right, not a single one.
Isaiah 50:1
The LORD says, "Do you think I sent my people away like a man who divorces his wife? Where, then, are the papers of divorce? Do you think I sold you into captivity like a man who sells his children as slaves? No, you went away captive because of your sins; you were sent away because of your crimes.
Romans 1:22-32
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They say they are wise, but they are fools;
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instead of worshiping the immortal God, they worship images made to look like mortals or birds or animals or reptiles.
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And so God has given those people over to do the filthy things their hearts desire, and they do shameful things with each other.
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They exchange the truth about God for a lie; they worship and serve what God has created instead of the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever! Amen.
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Because they do this, God has given them over to shameful passions. Even the women pervert the natural use of their sex by unnatural acts.
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In the same way the men give up natural sexual relations with women and burn with passion for each other. Men do shameful things with each other, and as a result they bring upon themselves the punishment they deserve for their wrongdoing.
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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.
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They are filled with all kinds of wickedness, evil, greed, and vice; they are full of jealousy, murder, fighting, deceit, and malice. They gossip
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and speak evil of one another; they are hateful to God, insolent, proud, and boastful; they think of more ways to do evil; they disobey their parents;
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they have no conscience; they do not keep their promises, and they show no kindness or pity for others.
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They know that God's law says that people who live in this way deserve death. Yet, not only do they continue to do these very things, but they even approve of others who do them.
Romans 3:9-19
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Well then, are we Jews in any better condition than the Gentiles? Not at all! I have already shown that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.
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As the Scriptures say: "There is no one who is righteous,
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no one who is wise or who worships God.
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All have turned away from God; they have all gone wrong; no one does what is right, not even one.
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Their words are full of deadly deceit; wicked lies roll off their tongues, and dangerous threats, like snake's poison, from their lips;
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their speech is filled with bitter curses.
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They are quick to hurt and kill;
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they leave ruin and destruction wherever they go.
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They have not known the path of peace,
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nor have they learned reverence for God."
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Now we know that everything in the Law applies to those who live under the Law, in order to stop all human excuses and bring the whole world under God's judgment.