Bible Cross References
the sons
Hosea 4:6-9
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.
7
"The more of you priests there are, the more you sin against me, and so I will turn your honor into disgrace.
8
You grow rich from the sins of my people, and so you want them to sin more and more.
9
You will suffer the same punishment as the people! I will punish you and make you pay for the evil you do.
Malachi 2:1-9
1
The LORD Almighty says to the priests, "This command is for you:
2
You must honor me by what you do. If you will not listen to what I say, then I will bring a curse on you. I will put a curse on the things you receive for your support. In fact, I have already put a curse on them, because you do not take my command seriously.
3
I will punish your children and rub your faces in the dung of the animals you sacrifice---and you will be taken out to the dung heap.
4
Then you will know that I have given you this command, so that my covenant with the priests, the descendants of Levi, will not be broken.
5
"In my covenant I promised them life and well-being, and this is what I gave them, so that they might respect me. In those days they did respect and fear me.
6
They taught what was right, not what was wrong. They lived in harmony with me; they not only did what was right themselves, but they also helped many others to stop doing evil.
7
It is the duty of priests to teach the true knowledge of God. People should go to them to learn my will, because they are the messengers of the LORD Almighty.
8
"But now you priests have turned away from the right path. Your teaching has led many to do wrong. You have broken the covenant I made with you.
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So I, in turn, will make the people of Israel despise you because you do not obey my will, and when you teach my people, you do not treat everyone alike."
sons of Belial
1 Samuel 10:27
But some worthless people said, "How can this fellow do us any good?" They despised Saul and did not bring him any gifts.
1 Samuel 25:17
Please think this over and decide what to do. This could be disastrous for our master and all his family. He is so mean that he won't listen to anybody!"
Deuteronomy 13:13
that some worthless people of your nation have misled the people of their town to worship gods that you have never worshiped before.
Judges 19:22
They were enjoying themselves when all of a sudden some sexual perverts from the town surrounded the house and started beating on the door. They said to the old man, "Bring out that man that came home with you! We want to have sex with him!"
1 Kings 21:10
Get a couple of scoundrels to accuse him to his face of cursing God and the king. Then take him out of the city and stone him to death."
1 Kings 21:13
The two scoundrels publicly accused him of cursing God and the king, and so he was taken outside the city and stoned to death.
2 Corinthians 6:15
How can Christ and the Devil agree? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
knew
1 Samuel 3:7
Judges 2:10
That whole generation also died, and the next generation forgot the LORD and what he had done for Israel.
Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not ask, 'Where is the LORD?' My own priests did not know me. The rulers rebelled against me; the prophets spoke in the name of Baal and worshiped useless idols.
Jeremiah 22:16
He gave the poor a fair trial, and all went well with him. That is what it means to know the LORD.
John 8:55
You have never known him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his word.
John 16:3
People will do these things to you because they have not known either the Father or me.
John 17:3
And eternal life means to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, whom you sent.
Romans 1:21
They know God, but they do not give him the honor that belongs to him, nor do they thank him. Instead, their thoughts have become complete nonsense, and their empty minds are filled with darkness.
Romans 1:28-30
28
Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.
29
They are filled with all kinds of wickedness, evil, greed, and vice; they are full of jealousy, murder, fighting, deceit, and malice. They gossip
30
and speak evil of one another; they are hateful to God, insolent, proud, and boastful; they think of more ways to do evil; they disobey their parents;