Bible Cross References
a controversy
Hosea 4:1
The LORD has an accusation to bring against the people who live in this land. Listen, Israel, to what he says: "There is no faithfulness or love in the land, and the people do not acknowledge me as God.
Jeremiah 25:31
and the sound will echo to the ends of the earth. The LORD has a case against the nations. He will bring all people to trial and put the wicked to death. The LORD has spoken.' "
Micah 6:2
You mountains, you everlasting foundations of the earth, listen to the LORD's case! The LORD has a case against his people. He is going to bring an accusation against Israel.
and will
2 Kings 17:19
But even the people of Judah did not obey the laws of the LORD their God; they imitated the customs adopted by the people of Israel.
2 Kings 17:20
The LORD rejected all the Israelites, punishing them and handing them over to cruel enemies until at last he had banished them from his sight.
Isaiah 8:7
I, the Lord, will bring the emperor of Assyria and all his forces to attack Judah. They will advance like the flood waters of the Euphrates River, overflowing all its banks.
Isaiah 8:8
They will sweep through Judah in a flood, rising shoulder high and covering everything." God is with us! His outspread wings protect the land.
Isaiah 10:6
I sent Assyria to attack a godless nation, people who have made me angry. I sent them to loot and steal and trample the people like dirt in the streets."
Jeremiah 3:8-11
8
Judah also saw that I divorced Israel and sent her away because she had turned from me and had become a prostitute. But Judah, Israel's unfaithful sister, was not afraid. She too became a prostitute
9
and was not at all ashamed. She defiled the land, and she committed adultery by worshiping stones and trees.
10
And after all this, Judah, Israel's unfaithful sister, only pretended to return to me; she was not sincere. I, the LORD, have spoken."
11
Then the LORD told me that, even though Israel had turned away from him, she had proved to be better than unfaithful Judah.
Ezekiel 23:11-21
11
"Even though her sister Oholibah saw this, she was wilder and more of a prostitute than Oholah had ever been.
12
She too was full of lust for the Assyrian noblemen and officers---soldiers in bright uniforms---and for the cavalry officers, all of those handsome young men.
13
I saw that she was completely immoral, that the second sister was as bad as the first.
14
"She sank deeper and deeper in her immorality. She was attracted by the images of high Babylonian officials carved into the wall and painted bright red, with sashes around their waists and fancy turbans on their heads.
16
As soon as she saw them, she was filled with lust and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.
17
The Babylonians came to have sex with her. They used her and defiled her so much that finally she became disgusted with them.
18
She exposed herself publicly and let everyone know she was a whore. I was as disgusted with her as I had been with her sister.
19
She became more of a prostitute than ever, acting the way she did as a young woman, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
20
She was filled with lust for oversexed men who had all the lustfulness of donkeys or stallions."
21
(Oholibah, you wanted to repeat the immorality you were guilty of as a young woman in Egypt, where men played with your breasts and you lost your virginity.)
Ezekiel 23:31
You followed in your sister's footsteps, and so I will give you the same cup of punishment to drink."
Ezekiel 23:32
The Sovereign LORD says, "You will drink from your sister's cup; it is large and deep. Everyone will scorn and mock you; the cup is full.
punish
Hosea 2:13
I will punish her for the times that she forgot me, when she burned incense to Baal and put on her jewelry to go chasing after her lovers. The LORD has spoken.
Hosea 8:13
They offer sacrifices to me and eat the meat of the sacrifices. But I, the LORD, am not pleased with them, and now I will remember their sin and punish them for it; I will send them back to Egypt!
Hosea 9:9
They are hopelessly evil in what they do, just as they were at Gibeah. God will remember their sin and punish them for it.
Isaiah 10:12
But the Lord says, "When I finish what I am doing on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I will punish the emperor of Assyria for all his boasting and all his pride."
Isaiah 24:21
A time is coming when the LORD will punish the powers above and the rulers of the earth.
according to his doings
Isaiah 3:11
But evil people are doomed; what they have done to others will now be done to them.
Isaiah 59:18
He will punish his enemies according to what they have done, even those who live in distant lands.
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will reward each one according to his deeds.
Romans 2:6
For God will reward each of us according to what we have done.
Galatians 6:7
Do not deceive yourselves; no one makes a fool of God. You will reap exactly what you plant.