Hosea 4:1-3
The Lord Accuses Israel
1 aHear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,for bthe Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
and cno knowledge of God in the land;
2 dthere is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
they break all bounds, and ebloodshed follows bloodshed.
3Therefore fthe land mourns,
and all who dwell in it languish,
gand also the beasts of the field
and the birds of the heavens,
hand even the fish of the sea are taken away.
Micah 3:8-12
8But as for me, iI am filled with power,with the Spirit of the Lord,
and with justice and might,
to declare to Jacob jhis transgression
and to Israel his sin.
9 kHear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel,
lwho detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,
10 mwho build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 nIts heads give judgment for a bribe;
oits priests teach for a price;
pits prophets practice divination for money;
qyet they lean on the Lord and rsay,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
sNo disaster shall come upon us.”
12Therefore because of you
tZion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem ushall become a heap of ruins,
and vthe mountain of the house wa wooded height.
Zephaniah 1:5
5 xthose who bow down on the roofsto the host of the heavens,
ythose who bow down and swear to the Lord
and yet swear by zMilcom,
Zechariah 5:3-4
3Then he said to me, “This is aathe curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who absteals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who acswears falsely ▼▼Hebrew lacks falsely (supplied from verse 4)
shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. 4I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of aehim who swears falsely by my name. And afit shall remain in his house and agconsume it, both timber and stones.” Malachi 3:5
5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be aha swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those aiwho oppress the hired worker in his wages, ajthe widow and the fatherless, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.Romans 2:2
2We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things.Romans 2:17-29
17But if you call yourself a Jew and akrely 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 ala 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 amthe embodiment of anknowledge and truth— 21 aoyou 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 aprob temples? 23You who aqboast in the law ardishonor God by breaking the law. 24For, asas it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed atamong the Gentiles because of you.”25For circumcision indeed is of value auif you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. 26So, if ava man who is uncircumcised keeps awthe precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded ▼
▼Or counted
as circumcision? 27Then he who is physically ▼▼Or is by nature
uncircumcised but keeps the law azwill condemn you who have bathe written code ▼▼Or the letter
and circumcision but break the law. 28For bcno one is a Jew bdwho is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. 29But a Jew is one beinwardly, and bfcircumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. bgHis praise is not from man but from God.
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