Eze 20:18-21, Joh 7:19, Rom 2:23-25, Gal 6:13 | ESV | STEP | And I said to their children in the wilderness , 'Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers , nor keep their rules , nor defile yourselves with their idols .

q[2 Sam. 12:14; Ezek. 36:20, 23; 2 Pet. 2:2]

Ezekiel 20:18-21

18 “And I said to ^atheir children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk ^bin the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, ^cnor defile yourselves with their idols. 19 ^dI am the Lord your God; ^ewalk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules, 20 and ^fkeep my Sabbaths holy that ^gthey may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.' 21 ^hBut the children ⁱrebelled against me. ^jThey did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths.

^k“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

John 7:19

19 ^lHas not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ^mWhy do you seek to kill me?”

Romans 2:23-25

23 You who ⁿboast in the law ^odishonor God by breaking the law. 24 For, ^pas it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed ^qamong the Gentiles because of you.”

25 For circumcision indeed is of value ^rif you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

Galatians 6:13

13 For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.