Isaiah 1:15
15When you aspread out your hands,I will hide my eyes from you;
beven though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
cyour hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 58:2
2 dYet they seek me dailyand delight to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that did righteousness
and did not forsake the judgment of their God;
they ask of me righteous judgments;
they delight to draw near to God.
Jeremiah 2:28
28But ewhere are your godsthat you made for yourself?
Let them arise, fif they can save you,
in your time of trouble;
for gas many as your cities
are your gods, O Judah.
Jeremiah 2:35
35you say, ‘I am innocent;surely his anger has turned from me.’
hBehold, I will bring you to judgment
for isaying, ‘I have not sinned.’
Ezekiel 33:31
31 jAnd they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for kwith lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.Micah 3:11
11 lIts heads give judgment for a bribe;mits priests teach for a price;
nits prophets practice divination for money;
oyet they lean on the Lord and psay,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
qNo disaster shall come upon us.”
1 Corinthians 4:7-8
7For who sees anything different in you? rWhat do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?8Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!
1 Corinthians 15:9-10
9For sI am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because tI persecuted the church of God. 10But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, uI worked harder than any of them, vthough it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
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