Bible Cross References
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Isaiah 1:12
Who asked you to bring me all this when you come to worship me? Who asked you to do all this tramping around in my Temple?
Matthew 3:7
When John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to him to be baptized, he said to them, "You snakes---who told you that you could escape from the punishment God is about to send?
Luke 3:7
Crowds of people came out to John to be baptized by him. "You snakes!" he said to them. "Who told you that you could escape from the punishment God is about to send?
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Ezekiel 20:31
Even today you offer the same gifts and defile yourselves with the same idols by sacrificing your children to them in the fire. And then you Israelites still come to ask what my will is! As surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God, I will not let you ask me anything.
Ezekiel 14:3
"Mortal man," he said, "these men have given their hearts to idols and are letting idols lead them into sin. Do they think I will give them an answer?
Ezekiel 14:4
"Now speak to them and tell them what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to them: Each of you Israelites who have given your heart to idols and let them lead you into sin and who then come to consult a prophet, will get an answer from me---the answer that your many idols deserve!
Ezekiel 14:7
"Whenever one of you Israelites or one of you foreigners who live in the Israelite community turn away from me and worship idols, and then go to consult a prophet, I, the LORD, will give you your answer!
Ezekiel 14:8
I will oppose you. I will make an example of you. I will remove you from the community of my people, so that all of you will know that I am the LORD.
1 Samuel 28:6
and so he asked the LORD what to do. But the LORD did not answer him at all, either by dreams or by the use of Urim and Thummim or by prophets.
Psalm 50:15-21
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Call to me when trouble comes; I will save you, and you will praise me."
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But God says to the wicked, "Why should you recite my commandments? Why should you talk about my covenant?
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You refuse to let me correct you; you reject my commands.
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You become the friend of every thief you see, and you associate with adulterers.
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"You are always ready to speak evil; you never hesitate to tell lies.
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You are ready to accuse your own relatives and to find fault with them.
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You have done all this, and I have said nothing, so you thought that I am like you. But now I reprimand you and make the matter plain to you.
Proverbs 15:8
The LORD is pleased when good people pray, but hates the sacrifices that the wicked bring him.
Proverbs 21:27
The LORD hates it when wicked people offer him sacrifices, especially if they do it from evil motives.
Proverbs 28:9
If you do not obey the law, God will find your prayers too hateful to hear.
Isaiah 1:15
"When you lift your hands in prayer, I will not look at you. No matter how much you pray, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with blood.
Micah 3:7
Those who predict the future will be disgraced by their failure. They will all be humiliated because God does not answer them.
Matthew 15:8
'These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.
Matthew 15:9
It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!' "
John 4:24
God is Spirit, and only by the power of his Spirit can people worship him as he really is."