agSee 1 Pet. 2:8
Jeremiah 7:4-10
4 aDo not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’5“For if you truly bamend your ways and your deeds, if you truly cexecute justice one with another, 6if you ddo not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, or the widow, eor shed innocent blood in this place, fand if you do not go after other gods to your own harm, 7 gthen I will let you dwell in this place, hin the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
8“Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail. 9 iWill you steal, murder, commit adultery, jswear falsely, kmake offerings to Baal, land go after other gods that you have not known, 10and then come and stand before me in this house, mwhich is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?
Zephaniah 3:11
11 n“On that day oyou shall not be put to shamebecause of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me;
for then pI will remove from your midst
your proudly exultant ones,
and qyou shall no longer be haughty
in my holy mountain.
Luke 10:28
28And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; rdo this, and you will live.”John 5:45
45Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, son whom you have set your hope.John 7:19
19 tHas not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. uWhy do you seek to kill me?”John 9:28-29
28And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but vwe are disciples of Moses. 29We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, wwe do not know where he comes from.”Romans 2:23
23You who xboast in the law ydishonor God by breaking the law.Romans 9:4
4They are zIsraelites, and to them belong aathe adoption, abthe glory, acthe covenants, adthe giving of the law, aethe worship, and afthe promises.Romans 9:32
32Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the agstumbling stone,
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