1Sa 2:12, 30:22, Psa 57:4, Isa 1:2, Hos 10:9, Eph 2:2-3, 5:6 | ESV | STEP | Now the sons of Eli were worthless men . They did not know the Lord .

1 Samuel 2:12

Eli’s Worthless Sons

12 Now the sons of Eli were ^aworthless men. ^bThey did not know the Lord.

1 Samuel 30:22

22 Then all the wicked and worthless fellows among the men who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except that each man may lead away his wife and children, and depart.”

Psalms 57:4

4 My soul is in the midst of ^clions;
I lie down amid fiery beasts—
the children of man, whose ^dteeth are spears and arrows,
whose ^etongues are sharp swords.

Isaiah 1:2

The Wickedness of Judah

2 ^fHear, O heavens, and give ear, O ^gearth;
for the Lord has spoken:
“Children ^{▼▼Or Sons; also verse 4} ⁱhave I reared and brought up,
but they have rebelled against me.

Hosea 10:9

9 From ^jthe days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel;
there they have continued.
Shall not the war against the unjust ^{▼▼Hebrew the children of injustice} overtake them in Gibeah?

Ephesians 2:2-3

2 ^lin which you once walked, following the course of this world, following ^mthe prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in ⁿthe sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in ^othe passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body ^{▼▼Greek flesh} and the mind, and ^qwere by nature ^rchildren of wrath, like the rest of mankind. ^{▼▼Greek like the rest}

Ephesians 5:6

6 ^tLet no one ^udeceive you with empty words, for because of these things ^vthe wrath of God comes upon ^wthe sons of disobedience.