1 Samuel 15:13-15
13And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, a“Blessed be you to the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord.” 14And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?” 15Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, bfor the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the Lord your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.”1 Samuel 15:20-21
20And Saul said to Samuel, c“I have obeyed the voice of the Lord. I have gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction. 21 dBut the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”Jeremiah 2:23
23 eHow can you say, ‘I am not unclean,I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way fin the valley;
know what you have done—
a restless young camel running here and there,
Jeremiah 2:35
35you say, ‘I am innocent;surely his anger has turned from me.’
gBehold, I will bring you to judgment
for hsaying, ‘I have not sinned.’
Malachi 1:6
The Priests’ Polluted Offerings
6 i“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am ja father, where is my honor? And if I am ka master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. lBut you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’Malachi 2:17
The Messenger of the Lord
17 mYou have wearied the Lord with your words. nBut you say, “How have we wearied him?” oBy saying, “Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them.” Or by asking, p“Where is the God of justice?”Malachi 3:13
13 q“Your words have been hard against me, says the Lord. rBut you say, ‘How have we spoken against you?’Matthew 7:22
22 sOn that day tmany will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not uprophesy in your name, and cast out demons vin your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’Matthew 25:24-27
24He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be wa hard man, reaping xwhere you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, yyou have what is yours.’ 26But his master answered him, ‘You zwicked and aaslothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.
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