Jer 4:22, Eze 22:6-13, Mar 7:8-9, Act 7:40-43, Rom 1:21-32, 3:9-19 | ESV | STEP | For my people are foolish ; they know me not ; they are stupid children ; they have no understanding . They are wise —in doing evil ! But how to do good they know not .

22 “For ^amy people are foolish;
they know me not;
they are stupid children;
they have no understanding.
^bThey are ‘wise’—in doing evil!
But how to do good they know not.”

Ezekiel 22:6-13

6 “Behold, ^cthe princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood. 7 Father and mother ^dare treated with contempt in you; the sojourner ^esuffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow ^fare wronged in you. 8 ^gYou have despised my holy things and ^hprofaned my Sabbaths. 9 ⁱThere are men in you who slander to shed blood, and people in you ^jwho eat on the mountains; ^kthey commit lewdness in your midst. 10 In you ^lmen uncover their fathers’ nakedness; in you they violate women who are unclean in their menstrual impurity. 11 ^mOne commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; ⁿanother lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; ^oanother in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter. 12 In you ^pthey take bribes to shed blood; ^qyou take interest and profit ^{▼▼That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor (compare Leviticus 25:36)} and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but ^sme you have forgotten, declares the Lord God.

13 “Behold, ^tI strike my hand at ^uthe dishonest gain that you have made, and at ^vthe blood that has been in your midst.

Mark 7:8-9

8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”

9 And he said to them, “You have a fine way of ^wrejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!

Acts 7:40-43

40 saying to Aaron, ^x‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ 41 And ^ythey made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and ^zwere rejoicing in ^aathe works of their hands. 42 But ^abGod turned away and ^acgave them over to worship ^adthe host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets:

^ae“‘Did you bring to me slain beasts and sacrifices,
^afduring the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
43 You took up the tent of ^agMoloch
and the star of your god Rephan,
the images that you made to worship;
and I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

Romans 1:21-32

21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they ^ahbecame futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 ^aiClaiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and ^ajexchanged the glory of ^akthe immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

24 Therefore ^alGod gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to ^amthe dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for ^ana lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, ^aowho is blessed forever! Amen.

26 For this reason ^apGod gave them up to ^aqdishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27 and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, ^armen committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, ^asGod gave them up to ^ata debased mind to do ^auwhat ought not to be done. 29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32 Though they know ^avGod’s righteous decree that those who practice such things ^awdeserve to die, they not only do them but ^axgive approval to those who practice them.

Romans 3:9-19

No One Is Righteous

9 What then? Are we Jews ^{▼▼Greek Are we} any better off? ^{▼▼Or at any disadvantage?} No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both ^baJews and ^bbGreeks, are ^bcunder sin, 10 as it is written:

^bd“None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
13 ^be“Their throat is ^bfan open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
^bg“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 ^bh“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 ^bi“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and ^bjthe way of peace they have not known.”
18 ^bk“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
19 Now we know that whatever ^blthe law says it speaks to those who are under the law, ^bmso that every mouth may be stopped, and ^bnthe whole world may be held accountable to God.