Bible Cross References
watchmen
Isaiah 52:8
Those who guard the city are shouting, shouting together for joy. They can see with their own eyes the return of the LORD to Zion.
Ezekiel 3:17
"Mortal man," he said, "I am making you a lookout for the nation of Israel. You will pass on to them the warnings I give you.
are blind
Isaiah 29:10
The LORD has made you drowsy, ready to fall into a deep sleep. The prophets should be the eyes of the people, but God has blindfolded them.
Jeremiah 14:13
Then I said, "Sovereign LORD, you know that the prophets are telling the people that there will be no war or starvation, because you have promised, they say, that there will be only peace in our land."
Jeremiah 14:14
But the LORD replied, "The prophets are telling lies in my name; I did not send them, nor did I give them any orders or speak one word to them. The visions they talk about have not come from me; their predictions are worthless things that they have imagined.
Hosea 4:6
My people are doomed because they do not acknowledge me. You priests have refused to acknowledge me and have rejected my teaching, and so I reject you and will not acknowledge your sons as my priests.
Hosea 9:7
The time for punishment has come, the time when people will get what they deserve. When that happens, Israel will know it! "This prophet," you say, "is a fool. This inspired man is insane." You people hate me so much because your sin is so great.
Hosea 9:8
God has sent me as a prophet to warn his people Israel. Yet wherever I go, you try to trap me like a bird. Even in God's Temple the people are the prophet's enemies.
Matthew 15:14
"Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch."
Matthew 23:16-26
16
"How terrible for you, blind guides! You teach, 'If someone swears by the Temple, he isn't bound by his vow; but if he swears by the gold in the Temple, he is bound.'
17
Blind fools! Which is more important, the gold or the Temple which makes the gold holy?
18
You also teach, 'If someone swears by the altar, he isn't bound by his vow; but if he swears by the gift on the altar, he is bound.'
19
How blind you are! Which is the more important, the gift or the altar which makes the gift holy?
20
So then, when a person swears by the altar, he is swearing by it and by all the gifts on it;
21
and when he swears by the Temple, he is swearing by it and by God, who lives there;
22
and when someone swears by heaven, he is swearing by God's throne and by him who sits on it.
23
"How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You give to God one tenth even of the seasoning herbs, such as mint, dill, and cumin, but you neglect to obey the really important teachings of the Law, such as justice and mercy and honesty. These you should practice, without neglecting the others.
24
Blind guides! You strain a fly out of your drink, but swallow a camel!
25
"How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You clean the outside of your cup and plate, while the inside is full of what you have gotten by violence and selfishness.
26
Blind Pharisee! Clean what is inside the cup first, and then the outside will be clean too!
Luke 6:39
And Jesus told them this parable: "One blind man cannot lead another one; if he does, both will fall into a ditch.
Luke 6:40
No pupils are greater than their teacher; but all pupils, when they have completed their training, will be like their teacher.
they are all dumb
Isaiah 58:1
The LORD says, "Shout as loud as you can! Tell my people Israel about their sins!
Jeremiah 6:13
Everyone, great and small, tries to make money dishonestly; even prophets and priests cheat the people.
Jeremiah 6:14
They act as if my people's wounds were only scratches. 'All is well,' they say, when all is not well.
Jeremiah 23:13
I have seen the sin of Samaria's prophets: they have spoken in the name of Baal and have led my people astray.
Jeremiah 23:14
But I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem do even worse: they commit adultery and tell lies; they help people to do wrong, so that no one stops doing what is evil. To me they are all as bad as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Ezekiel 3:15-18
15
So I came to Tel Abib beside the Chebar River, where the exiles were living, and for seven days I stayed there, overcome by what I had seen and heard.
16
After the seven days had passed, the LORD spoke to me.
17
"Mortal man," he said, "I am making you a lookout for the nation of Israel. You will pass on to them the warnings I give you.
18
If I announce that someone evil is going to die but you do not warn him to change his ways so that he can save his life, he will die, still a sinner, but I will hold you responsible for his death.
Ezekiel 3:26-18
Ezekiel 3:27-18
Ezekiel 13:16
those prophets who assured Jerusalem that all was well, when all was not well!" The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
Ezekiel 33:6
If, however, the lookout sees the enemy coming and does not sound the alarm, the enemy will come and kill those sinners, but I will hold the lookout responsible for their death.
Philippians 3:2
Watch out for those who do evil things, those dogs, those who insist on cutting the body.
loving
Proverbs 6:4-10
4
Don't let yourself go to sleep or even stop to rest.
5
Get out of the trap like a bird or a deer escaping from a hunter.
6
Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live.
7
They have no leader, chief, or ruler,
8
but they store up their food during the summer, getting ready for winter.
9
How long is the lazy man going to lie around? When is he ever going to get up?
10
"I'll just take a short nap," he says; "I'll fold my hands and rest a while."
Proverbs 24:30-34
30
I walked through the fields and vineyards of a lazy, stupid person.
31
They were full of thorn bushes and overgrown with weeds. The stone wall around them had fallen down.
32
I looked at this, thought about it, and learned a lesson from it:
33
Go ahead and take your nap; go ahead and sleep. Fold your hands and rest awhile,
34
but while you are asleep, poverty will attack you like an armed robber.
Jonah 1:2-6
2
He said, "Go to Nineveh, that great city, and speak out against it; I am aware of how wicked its people are."
3
Jonah, however, set out in the opposite direction in order to get away from the LORD. He went to Joppa, where he found a ship about to go to Spain. He paid his fare and went aboard with the crew to sail to Spain, where he would be away from the LORD.
4
But the LORD sent a strong wind on the sea, and the storm was so violent that the ship was in danger of breaking up.
5
The sailors were terrified and cried out for help, each one to his own god. Then, in order to lessen the danger, they threw the cargo overboard. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone below and was lying in the ship's hold, sound asleep.
6
The captain found him there and said to him, "What are you doing asleep? Get up and pray to your god for help. Maybe he will feel sorry for us and spare our lives."
Nahum 3:18
Emperor of Assyria, your governors are dead, and your noblemen are asleep forever! Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to bring them home again.
Mark 13:34-37
34
It will be like a man who goes away from home on a trip and leaves his servants in charge, after giving to each one his own work to do and after telling the doorkeeper to keep watch.
35
Watch, then, because you do not know when the master of the house is coming---it might be in the evening or at midnight or before dawn or at sunrise.
36
If he comes suddenly, he must not find you asleep.
37
What I say to you, then, I say to all: Watch!"