Bible Cross References
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Isaiah 57:12
You think that what you do is right, but I will expose your conduct, and your idols will not be able to help you.
Isaiah 57:13
When you cry for help, let those idols of yours save you! A puff of wind will carry them off ! But those who trust in me will live in the land and will worship me in my Temple."
Isaiah 59:5
The evil plots you make are as deadly as the eggs of a poisonous snake. Crush an egg, out comes a snake! But your plots will do you no good---they are as useless as clothing made of cobwebs!
Isaiah 59:6
(SEE 59:5)
Isaiah 64:6
All of us have been sinful; even our best actions are filthy through and through. Because of our sins we are like leaves that wither and are blown away by the wind.
Isaiah 66:3-6
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"The people do as they please. It's all the same to them whether they kill a bull as a sacrifice or sacrifice a human being; whether they sacrifice a lamb or break a dog's neck; whether they present a grain offering or offer pigs' blood; whether they offer incense or pray to an idol. They take pleasure in disgusting ways of worship.
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So I will bring disaster upon them---the very things they are afraid of---because no one answered when I called or listened when I spoke. They chose to disobey me and do evil."
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Listen to what the LORD says, you that fear him and obey him: "Because you are faithful to me, some of your own people hate you and will have nothing to do with you. They mock you and say, 'Let the LORD show his greatness and save you, so that we may see you rejoice.' But they themselves will be disgraced!
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Listen! That loud noise in the city, that sound in the Temple, is the sound of the LORD punishing his enemies!
Jeremiah 7:8-10
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"Look, you put your trust in deceitful words.
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You steal, murder, commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before.
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You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence, in my own Temple, and say, 'We are safe!'
Romans 9:30-32
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So we say that the Gentiles, who were not trying to put themselves right with God, were put right with him through faith;
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while God's people, who were seeking a law that would put them right with God, did not find it.
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And why not? Because they did not depend on faith but on what they did. And so they stumbled over the "stumbling stone"
1 Corinthians 1:18-31
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For the message about Christ's death on the cross is nonsense to those who are being lost; but for us who are being saved it is God's power.
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The scripture says, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and set aside the understanding of the scholars."
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So then, where does that leave the wise? or the scholars? or the skillful debaters of this world? God has shown that this world's wisdom is foolishness!
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For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom. Instead, by means of the so-called "foolish" message we preach, God decided to save those who believe.
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Jews want miracles for proof, and Greeks look for wisdom.
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As for us, we proclaim the crucified Christ, a message that is offensive to the Jews and nonsense to the Gentiles;
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but for those whom God has called, both Jews and Gentiles, this message is Christ, who is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
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For what seems to be God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and what seems to be God's weakness is stronger than human strength.
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Now remember what you were, my friends, when God called you. From the human point of view few of you were wise or powerful or of high social standing.
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God purposely chose what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise, and he chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the powerful.
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He chose what the world looks down on and despises and thinks is nothing, in order to destroy what the world thinks is important.
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This means that no one can boast in God's presence.
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But God has brought you into union with Christ Jesus, and God has made Christ to be our wisdom. By him we are put right with God; we become God's holy people and are set free.
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So then, as the scripture says, "Whoever wants to boast must boast of what the Lord has done."