Deuteronomy 33:10
10 aThey shall teach Jacob your rulesand Israel your law;
bthey shall put incense before you
and cwhole burnt offerings on your altar.
Jeremiah 8:8-9
8 d“How can you say, ‘We are wise,and the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
has made it into a lie.
9 eThe wise men shall be put to shame;
they shall be dismayed fand taken;
behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
so what wisdom is in them?
Malachi 2:6-9
6 gTrue instruction ▼▼Or law; also verses 7, 8, 9
was in his mouth, and no wrong was found on his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and he iturned many from iniquity. 7For jthe lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people ▼▼Hebrew they
should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. 8But you have turned aside from the way. lYou have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted mthe covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts, 9and so nI make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but oshow partiality in your instruction.” Luke 11:52
52Woe to you plawyers! qFor you have taken away the key of rknowledge. You sdid not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”John 8:55
55But tyou have not known him. uI know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be va liar wlike you, but I do know him and I keep his word.John 16:3
3And they will do these things xbecause they have not known the Father, nor me.Romans 2:17-24
17But if you call yourself a Jew and yrely on the law and boast in God 18and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed from the law; 19and if you are sure that you yourself are za guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law aathe embodiment of abknowledge and truth— 21 acyou then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? 22You who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you adrob temples? 23You who aeboast in the law afdishonor God by breaking the law. 24For, agas it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed ahamong the Gentiles because of you.”
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