Bible Cross References
swearing
Isaiah 24:5
The people have defiled the earth by breaking God's laws and by violating the covenant he made to last forever.
Isaiah 48:1
Listen to this, people of Israel, you that are descended from Judah: You swear by the name of the LORD and claim to worship the God of Israel--- but you don't mean a word you say.
Isaiah 59:2-8
2
It is because of your sins that he doesn't hear you. It is your sins that separate you from God when you try to worship him.
3
You are guilty of lying, violence, and murder.
4
You go to court, but you do not have justice on your side. You depend on lies to win your case. You carry out your plans to hurt others.
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!
7
You are always planning something evil, and you can hardly wait to do it. You never hesitate to murder innocent people. You leave ruin and destruction wherever you go,
8
and no one is safe when you are around. Everything you do is unjust. You follow a crooked path, and no one who walks that path will ever be safe.
Isaiah 59:12-15
12
" LORD, our crimes against you are many. Our sins accuse us. We are well aware of them all.
13
We have rebelled against you, rejected you, and refused to follow you. We have oppressed others and turned away from you. Our thoughts are false; our words are lies.
14
Justice is driven away, and right cannot come near. Truth stumbles in the public square, and honesty finds no place there.
15
There is so little honesty that those who stop doing evil find themselves the victims of crime." The LORD has seen this, and he is displeased that there is no justice.
Jeremiah 5:1
People of Jerusalem, run through your streets! Look around! See for yourselves! Search the marketplaces! Can you find one person who does what is right and tries to be faithful to God? If you can, the LORD will forgive Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 5:2
Even though you claim to worship the LORD, you do not mean what you say.
Jeremiah 5:7-9
7
The LORD asked, "Why should I forgive the sins of my people? They have abandoned me and have worshiped gods that are not real. I fed my people until they were full, but they committed adultery and spent their time with prostitutes.
8
They were like well-fed stallions wild with desire, each lusting for his neighbor's wife.
9
Shouldn't I punish them for these things and take revenge on a nation such as this?
Jeremiah 5:26-9
Jeremiah 5:27-9
Jeremiah 6:7
As a well keeps its water fresh, so Jerusalem keeps its evil fresh. I hear violence and destruction in the city; sickness and wounds are all I see.
Jeremiah 7:6-10
6
Stop taking advantage of aliens, orphans, and widows. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop worshiping other gods, for that will destroy you.
7
If you change, I will let you go on living here in the land which I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession.
8
"Look, you put your trust in deceitful words.
9
You steal, murder, commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before.
10
You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence, in my own Temple, and say, 'We are safe!'
Jeremiah 9:2-8
2
I wish I had a place to stay in the desert where I could get away from my people. They are all unfaithful, a mob of traitors.
3
They are always ready to tell lies; dishonesty instead of truth rules the land. The LORD says, "My people do one evil thing after another and do not acknowledge me as their God."
4
Everyone must be on guard against their friends, and no one can trust their relatives; for all relatives are as deceitful as Jacob, and everyone slanders their friends.
5
They all mislead their friends, and no one tells the truth; they have taught their tongues to lie and will not give up their sinning. They do one violent thing after another, and one deceitful act follows another. The LORD says that his people reject him.
7
Because of this the LORD Almighty says, "I will refine my people like metal and put them to the test. My people have done evil--- what else can I do with them?
8
Their tongues are like deadly arrows; they always tell lies. Everyone speaks friendly words to their neighbors, but they are really setting a trap for them.
Jeremiah 23:10-14
10
The land is full of people unfaithful to the LORD; they live wicked lives and misuse their power. Because of the LORD's curse the land mourns and the pastures are dry.
11
The LORD says, "The prophets and the priests are godless; I have caught them doing evil in the Temple itself.
12
The paths they follow will be slippery and dark; I will make them stumble and fall. I am going to bring disaster on them; the time of their punishment is coming. I, the LORD, have spoken.
13
I have seen the sin of Samaria's prophets: they have spoken in the name of Baal and have led my people astray.
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 22:2-13
2
"Mortal man," he said, "are you ready to judge the city that is full of murderers? Make clear to her all the disgusting things she has done.
3
Tell the city what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: Because you have murdered so many of your own people and have defiled yourself by worshiping idols, your time is coming.
4
You are guilty of those murders and are defiled by the idols you made, and so your day is coming, your time is up! That is why I have let the nations make fun of you and all the countries sneer at you.
5
Countries nearby and countries far away sneer at you because of your lawlessness.
6
All Israel's leaders trust in their own strength and commit murder.
7
None of you in the city honor your parents. You cheat foreigners and take advantage of widows and orphans.
8
You have no respect for the holy places, and you don't keep the Sabbath.
9
Some of your people tell lies about others in order to have them put to death. Some of them eat sacrifices offered to idols. Some are always satisfying their lusts.
10
Some of them sleep with their father's wife. Some force women to have intercourse with them during their period.
11
Some commit adultery, and others seduce their daughters-in-law or their half sisters.
12
Some of your people murder for pay. Some charge interest on the loans they make to other Israelites and get rich by taking advantage of them. They have forgotten me." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
13
"I will bring my fist down on your robberies and murders.
Ezekiel 22:25-30
25
The leaders are like lions roaring over the animals they have killed. They kill the people, take all the money and property they can get, and by their murders leave many widows.
26
The priests break my law and have no respect for what is holy. They make no distinction between what is holy and what is not. They do not teach the difference between clean and unclean things, and they ignore the Sabbath. As a result the people of Israel do not respect me.
27
The government officials are like wolves tearing apart the animals they have killed. They commit murder in order to get rich.
28
The prophets have hidden these sins like workers covering a wall with whitewash. They see false visions and make false predictions. They claim to speak the word of the Sovereign LORD, but I, the LORD, have not spoken to them.
29
The wealthy cheat and rob. They mistreat the poor and take advantage of foreigners.
30
I looked for someone who could build a wall, who could stand in the places where the walls have crumbled and defend the land when my anger is about to destroy it, but I could find no one.
Micah 2:1-3
1
How terrible it will be for those who lie awake and plan evil! When morning comes, as soon as they have the chance, they do the evil they planned.
2
When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them. No one's family or property is safe.
3
And so the LORD says, "I am planning to bring disaster on you, and you will not be able to escape it. You are going to find yourselves in trouble, and then you will not walk so proudly any more.
Micah 3:2
yet you hate what is good and you love what is evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
Micah 3:9
Listen to me, you rulers of Israel, you that hate justice and turn right into wrong.
Micah 6:10
In the houses of evil people are treasures which they got dishonestly. They use false measures, a thing that I hate.
Micah 7:2
There is not an honest person left in the land, no one loyal to God. Everyone is waiting for a chance to commit murder. Everyone hunts down their own people.
Zephaniah 3:1
Jerusalem is doomed, that corrupt, rebellious city that oppresses its own people.
Zechariah 5:3
Then he said to me, "On it is written the curse that is to go out over the whole land. On one side of the scroll it says that every thief will be removed from the land; and on the other side it says that everyone who tells lies under oath will also be taken away.
Zechariah 7:9
"Long ago I gave these commands to my people: 'You must see that justice is done, and must show kindness and mercy to one another.
toucheth
Hosea 5:2
a deep pit at Acacia City, and I will punish all of you.
Hosea 6:9
The priests are like a gang of robbers who wait in ambush for someone. Even on the road to the holy place at Shechem they commit murder. And they do all this evil deliberately!
Lamentations 4:13
But it happened, because her prophets sinned and her priests were guilty of causing the death of innocent people.
Matthew 23:35
As a result, the punishment for the murder of all innocent people will fall on you, from the murder of innocent Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.
Acts 7:52
Was there any prophet that your ancestors did not persecute? They killed God's messengers, who long ago announced the coming of his righteous Servant. And now you have betrayed and murdered him.
1 Thessalonians 2:15
who killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us. How displeasing they are to God! How hostile they are to everyone!
Revelation 17:6
And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God's people and the blood of those who were killed because they had been loyal to Jesus. When I saw her, I was completely amazed.