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Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
Genesis Chapter 3: Verse 1
Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD and I will not let Israel go."
Exodus Chapter 5: Verse 2
They said to Moses, "Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
Exodus Chapter 14: Verse 11
And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?" The Amalekites Defeated
Exodus Chapter 17: Verse 7
" 'But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or alien, blasphemes the LORD, and that person must be cut off from his people.
Numbers Chapter 15: Verse 30
When such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself and therefore thinks, "I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way." This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him; his wrath and zeal will burn against that man. All the curses written in this book will fall upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy Chapter 29: Verses 19 - 20
Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, he became heavy and sleek. He abandoned the God who made him and rejected the Rock his Savior.
Deuteronomy Chapter 32: Verse 15
The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, "This is what the LORD says: 'Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the LORD.' "
1 Kings Chapter 20: Verse 28
Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face. "Which way did the spirit from the LORD go when he went from me to speak to you?" he asked.
1 Kings Chapter 22: Verse 24
From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!"
2 Kings Chapter 2: Verse 23
At the king's command, couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and from his officials, which read: "People of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he may return to you who are left, who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
2 Chronicles Chapter 30: Verse 6
The couriers went from town to town in Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun, but the people scorned and ridiculed them.
2 Chronicles Chapter 30: Verse 10
Now do not let Hezekiah deceive you and mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my fathers. How much less will your god deliver you from my hand!"
2 Chronicles Chapter 32: Verse 15
But they mocked God's messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the LORD was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.
2 Chronicles Chapter 36: Verse 16
because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
Job Chapter 15: Verses 25 - 26
Yet they say to God, 'Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?'
Job Chapter 21: Verses 14 - 15
Yet you say, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?
Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.'
Job Chapter 22: Verses 13 - 14
They said to God, 'Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?'
Job Chapter 22: Verse 17
What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
Job Chapter 34: Verse 7
For he says, 'It profits a man nothing when he tries to please God.'
Job Chapter 34: Verse 9
Can he who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One?
Is he not the One who says to kings, 'You are worthless,' and to nobles, 'You are wicked,'
who shows no partiality to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
Job Chapter 34: Verses 17 - 19
Should God then reward you on your terms, when you refuse to repent? You must decide, not I; so tell me what you know.
Job Chapter 34: Verse 33
Yet you ask him, 'What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?'
Job Chapter 35: Verse 3
Who has prescribed his ways for him, or said to him, 'You have done wrong'?
Job Chapter 36: Verse 23
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
Psalms Chapter 1: Verse 1
Many are saying of me, "God will not deliver him."
Psalms Chapter 3: Verse 2
Many are asking, "Who can show us any good?" Let the light of your face shine upon us, O LORD.
Psalms Chapter 4: Verse 6
He says to himself, "God has forgotten; he covers his face and never sees."
Psalms Chapter 10: Verse 11
May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue
that says, "We will triumph with our tongues; we own our lips ,who is our master?"
Psalms Chapter 12: Verses 3 - 4
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
Psalms Chapter 14: Verse 1
My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
Psalms Chapter 42: Verse 3
These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was altogether like you. But I will rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
Psalms Chapter 50: Verse 21
See what they spew from their mouths, they spew out swords from their lips, and they say, "Who can hear us?"
Psalms Chapter 59: Verse 7
They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say, "Who will see them ?"
Psalms Chapter 64: Verse 5
They say, "How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?"
Psalms Chapter 73: Verse 11
They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the desert?
Psalms Chapter 78: Verse 19
They say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed."
Take heed, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?
Does he who implanted the ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not see?
Psalms Chapter 94: Verses 7 - 9
Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe his promise.
Psalms Chapter 106: Verse 24
"How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs Chapter 1: Verse 22
He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs Chapter 3: Verse 34
If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer."
Proverbs Chapter 9: Verse 12
The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
Proverbs Chapter 14: Verse 6
Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
Proverbs Chapter 19: Verse 29
The schemes of folly are sin, and men detest a mocker.
Proverbs Chapter 24: Verse 9
Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence.
Isaiah Chapter 3: Verse 8
Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes,
to those who say, "Let God hurry, let him hasten his work so we may see it. Let it approach, let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come, so we may know it."
Isaiah Chapter 5: Verses 18 - 19
Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore the LORD's anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Isaiah Chapter 5: Verses 24 - 25
Does the ax raise itself above him who swings it, or the saw boast against him who uses it? As if a rod were to wield him who lifts it up, or a club brandish him who is not wood!
Isaiah Chapter 10: Verse 15
"Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast?
For it is: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule ; a little here, a little there."
Isaiah Chapter 28: Verses 9 - 10
Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
You boast, "We have entered into a covenant with death, with the grave we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place."
Isaiah Chapter 28: Verses 14 - 15
I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie, and water will overflow your hiding place.
Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the grave will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it.
As often as it comes it will carry you away; morning after morning, by day and by night, it will sweep through." The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.
The bed is too short to stretch out on, the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.
The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task.
Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the LORD Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land.
Isaiah Chapter 28: Verses 17 - 22
Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?"
You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can the pot say of the potter, "He knows nothing"?
Isaiah Chapter 29: Verses 15 - 16
The ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down-
Isaiah Chapter 29: Verse 20
"Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands'?
Woe to him who says to his father, 'What have you begotten?' or to his mother, 'What have you brought to birth?'
Isaiah Chapter 45: Verses 9 - 10
You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me.'
Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.
Isaiah Chapter 47: Verses 10 - 11
Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?
Isaiah Chapter 57: Verse 4
"Whom have you so dreaded and feared that you have been false to me, and have neither remembered me nor pondered this in your hearts? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me?
Isaiah Chapter 57: Verse 11
"You of this generation, consider the word of the LORD : "Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We are free to roam; we will come to you no more'?
Jeremiah Chapter 2: Verse 31
They have lied about the LORD; they said, "He will do nothing! No harm will come to us; we will never see sword or famine.
Jeremiah Chapter 5: Verse 12
They keep saying to me, "Where is the word of the LORD ? Let it now be fulfilled!"
Jeremiah Chapter 17: Verse 15
Moab will be destroyed as a nation because she defied the LORD.
Jeremiah Chapter 48: Verse 42
I set a trap for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it; you were found and captured because you opposed the LORD.
Jeremiah Chapter 50: Verse 24
"Summon archers against Babylon, all those who draw the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her for her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah Chapter 50: Verse 29
In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.
Lamentations Chapter 1: Verse 7
He answered me, "The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.'
So I will not look on them with pity or spare them, but I will bring down on their own heads what they have done."
Ezekiel Chapter 9: Verses 9 - 10
"Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel: 'The days go by and every vision comes to nothing'?
Ezekiel Chapter 12: Verse 22
"What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: " 'The fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?
Ezekiel Chapter 18: Verse 2
Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Are my ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
Ezekiel Chapter 18: Verse 29
Then I said, "Ah, Sovereign LORD! They are saying of me, 'Isn't he just telling parables?' "
Ezekiel Chapter 20: Verse 49
Yet, O house of Israel, you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' But I will judge each of you according to his own ways." Jerusalem's Fall Explained
Ezekiel Chapter 33: Verse 20
"As for you, son of man, your countrymen are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, 'Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD.'
Ezekiel Chapter 33: Verse 30
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The enemy said of you, "Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession." '
Ezekiel Chapter 36: Verse 2
Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?"
Daniel Chapter 3: Verse 15
He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior. When they feel secure, he will destroy many and take his stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power.
Daniel Chapter 8: Verse 25
On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers.
Hosea Chapter 7: Verse 5
Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak lies against me.
Hosea Chapter 7: Verse 13
I trained them and strengthened them, but they plot evil against me.
Hosea Chapter 7: Verse 15
Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD ? That day will be darkness, not light.
Amos Chapter 5: Verse 18
Now then, hear the word of the LORD. You say, " 'Do not prophesy against Israel, and stop preaching against the house of Isaac.'
Amos Chapter 7: Verse 16
Then my enemy will see it and will be covered with shame, she who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will see her downfall; even now she will be trampled underfoot like mire in the streets.
Micah Chapter 7: Verse 10
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who are complacent, who are like wine left on its dregs, who think, 'The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.'
Zephaniah Chapter 1: Verse 12
"You place defiled food on my altar. "But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' "By saying that the LORD's table is contemptible.
Malachi Chapter 1: Verse 7
"You have said harsh things against me," says the LORD. "Yet you ask, 'What have we said against you?'
"You have said, 'It is futile to serve God. What did we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD Almighty?
Malachi Chapter 3: Verses 13 - 14
But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, "It is only by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons."
Matthew Chapter 12: Verse 24
"Then the man who had received the one talent came. 'Master,' he said, 'I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.'
"His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?
Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.
Matthew Chapter 25: Verses 24 - 27
Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads
and saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!"
In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him.
"He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! He's the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, 'I am the Son of God.' "
In the same way the robbers who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.The Death of Jesus
Matthew Chapter 27: Verses 39 - 44
Jesus said to them, "Surely you will quote this proverb to me: 'Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.' "
Luke Chapter 4: Verse 23
"But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, 'We don't want this man to be our king.'
Luke Chapter 19: Verse 14
But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them,bring them here and kill them in front of me."The Triumphal Entry
Luke Chapter 19: Verse 27
Some, however, made fun of them and said, "They have had too much wine. "Peter Addresses the Crowd
Acts Chapter 2: Verse 13
When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and talked abusively against what Paul was saying.
Acts Chapter 13: Verse 45
A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to dispute with him. Some of them asked, "What is this babbler trying to say?" Others remarked, "He seems to be advocating foreign gods." They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
Acts Chapter 17: Verse 18
When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, "We want to hear you again on this subject."
Acts Chapter 17: Verse 32
(The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)
Acts Chapter 23: Verse 8
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' "
Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
Romans Chapter 9: Verses 20 - 21
How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews Chapter 10: Verse 29
But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them,bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2 Peter Chapter 2: Verse 1
First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
2 Peter Chapter 3: Verse 3
For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.
Jude Chapter 1: Verse 4
to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
Jude Chapter 1: Verse 15
They said to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires."
Jude Chapter 1: Verse 18
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?"
Genesis Chapter 3: Verse 1
Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD and I will not let Israel go."
Exodus Chapter 5: Verse 2
They said to Moses, "Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
Exodus Chapter 14: Verse 11
And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?" The Amalekites Defeated
Exodus Chapter 17: Verse 7
" 'But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or alien, blasphemes the LORD, and that person must be cut off from his people.
Numbers Chapter 15: Verse 30
When such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself and therefore thinks, "I will be safe, even though I persist in going my own way." This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
The LORD will never be willing to forgive him; his wrath and zeal will burn against that man. All the curses written in this book will fall upon him, and the LORD will blot out his name from under heaven.
Deuteronomy Chapter 29: Verses 19 - 20
Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, he became heavy and sleek. He abandoned the God who made him and rejected the Rock his Savior.
Deuteronomy Chapter 32: Verse 15
The man of God came up and told the king of Israel, "This is what the LORD says: 'Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not a god of the valleys, I will deliver this vast army into your hands, and you will know that I am the LORD.' "
1 Kings Chapter 20: Verse 28
Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah went up and slapped Micaiah in the face. "Which way did the spirit from the LORD go when he went from me to speak to you?" he asked.
1 Kings Chapter 22: Verse 24
From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!"
2 Kings Chapter 2: Verse 23
At the king's command, couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and from his officials, which read: "People of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that he may return to you who are left, who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.
2 Chronicles Chapter 30: Verse 6
The couriers went from town to town in Ephraim and Manasseh, as far as Zebulun, but the people scorned and ridiculed them.
2 Chronicles Chapter 30: Verse 10
Now do not let Hezekiah deceive you and mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or the hand of my fathers. How much less will your god deliver you from my hand!"
2 Chronicles Chapter 32: Verse 15
But they mocked God's messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the LORD was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.
2 Chronicles Chapter 36: Verse 16
because he shakes his fist at God and vaunts himself against the Almighty,
defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield.
Job Chapter 15: Verses 25 - 26
Yet they say to God, 'Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?'
Job Chapter 21: Verses 14 - 15
Yet you say, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such darkness?
Thick clouds veil him, so he does not see us as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.'
Job Chapter 22: Verses 13 - 14
They said to God, 'Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do to us?'
Job Chapter 22: Verse 17
What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
Job Chapter 34: Verse 7
For he says, 'It profits a man nothing when he tries to please God.'
Job Chapter 34: Verse 9
Can he who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One?
Is he not the One who says to kings, 'You are worthless,' and to nobles, 'You are wicked,'
who shows no partiality to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
Job Chapter 34: Verses 17 - 19
Should God then reward you on your terms, when you refuse to repent? You must decide, not I; so tell me what you know.
Job Chapter 34: Verse 33
Yet you ask him, 'What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?'
Job Chapter 35: Verse 3
Who has prescribed his ways for him, or said to him, 'You have done wrong'?
Job Chapter 36: Verse 23
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
Psalms Chapter 1: Verse 1
Many are saying of me, "God will not deliver him."
Psalms Chapter 3: Verse 2
Many are asking, "Who can show us any good?" Let the light of your face shine upon us, O LORD.
Psalms Chapter 4: Verse 6
He says to himself, "God has forgotten; he covers his face and never sees."
Psalms Chapter 10: Verse 11
May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue
that says, "We will triumph with our tongues; we own our lips ,who is our master?"
Psalms Chapter 12: Verses 3 - 4
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
Psalms Chapter 14: Verse 1
My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
Psalms Chapter 42: Verse 3
These things you have done and I kept silent; you thought I was altogether like you. But I will rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
Psalms Chapter 50: Verse 21
See what they spew from their mouths, they spew out swords from their lips, and they say, "Who can hear us?"
Psalms Chapter 59: Verse 7
They encourage each other in evil plans, they talk about hiding their snares; they say, "Who will see them ?"
Psalms Chapter 64: Verse 5
They say, "How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?"
Psalms Chapter 73: Verse 11
They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the desert?
Psalms Chapter 78: Verse 19
They say, "The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed."
Take heed, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?
Does he who implanted the ear not hear? Does he who formed the eye not see?
Psalms Chapter 94: Verses 7 - 9
Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe his promise.
Psalms Chapter 106: Verse 24
"How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs Chapter 1: Verse 22
He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs Chapter 3: Verse 34
If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer."
Proverbs Chapter 9: Verse 12
The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
Proverbs Chapter 14: Verse 6
Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
Proverbs Chapter 19: Verse 29
The schemes of folly are sin, and men detest a mocker.
Proverbs Chapter 24: Verse 9
Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the LORD, defying his glorious presence.
Isaiah Chapter 3: Verse 8
Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes,
to those who say, "Let God hurry, let him hasten his work so we may see it. Let it approach, let the plan of the Holy One of Israel come, so we may know it."
Isaiah Chapter 5: Verses 18 - 19
Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore the LORD's anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down. The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets. Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
Isaiah Chapter 5: Verses 24 - 25
Does the ax raise itself above him who swings it, or the saw boast against him who uses it? As if a rod were to wield him who lifts it up, or a club brandish him who is not wood!
Isaiah Chapter 10: Verse 15
"Who is it he is trying to teach? To whom is he explaining his message? To children weaned from their milk, to those just taken from the breast?
For it is: Do and do, do and do, rule on rule, rule on rule ; a little here, a little there."
Isaiah Chapter 28: Verses 9 - 10
Therefore hear the word of the LORD, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.
You boast, "We have entered into a covenant with death, with the grave we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place."
Isaiah Chapter 28: Verses 14 - 15
I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge, the lie, and water will overflow your hiding place.
Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the grave will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it.
As often as it comes it will carry you away; morning after morning, by day and by night, it will sweep through." The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.
The bed is too short to stretch out on, the blanket too narrow to wrap around you.
The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task.
Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the LORD Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land.
Isaiah Chapter 28: Verses 17 - 22
Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, "Who sees us? Who will know?"
You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, "He did not make me"? Can the pot say of the potter, "He knows nothing"?
Isaiah Chapter 29: Verses 15 - 16
The ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down-
Isaiah Chapter 29: Verse 20
"Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker, to him who is but a potsherd among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, 'What are you making?' Does your work say, 'He has no hands'?
Woe to him who says to his father, 'What have you begotten?' or to his mother, 'What have you brought to birth?'
Isaiah Chapter 45: Verses 9 - 10
You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, 'No one sees me.' Your wisdom and knowledge mislead you when you say to yourself, 'I am, and there is none besides me.'
Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you.
Isaiah Chapter 47: Verses 10 - 11
Whom are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?
Isaiah Chapter 57: Verse 4
"Whom have you so dreaded and feared that you have been false to me, and have neither remembered me nor pondered this in your hearts? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear me?
Isaiah Chapter 57: Verse 11
"You of this generation, consider the word of the LORD : "Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We are free to roam; we will come to you no more'?
Jeremiah Chapter 2: Verse 31
They have lied about the LORD; they said, "He will do nothing! No harm will come to us; we will never see sword or famine.
Jeremiah Chapter 5: Verse 12
They keep saying to me, "Where is the word of the LORD ? Let it now be fulfilled!"
Jeremiah Chapter 17: Verse 15
Moab will be destroyed as a nation because she defied the LORD.
Jeremiah Chapter 48: Verse 42
I set a trap for you, O Babylon, and you were caught before you knew it; you were found and captured because you opposed the LORD.
Jeremiah Chapter 50: Verse 24
"Summon archers against Babylon, all those who draw the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her for her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
Jeremiah Chapter 50: Verse 29
In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.
Lamentations Chapter 1: Verse 7
He answered me, "The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of bloodshed and the city is full of injustice. They say, 'The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.'
So I will not look on them with pity or spare them, but I will bring down on their own heads what they have done."
Ezekiel Chapter 9: Verses 9 - 10
"Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel: 'The days go by and every vision comes to nothing'?
Ezekiel Chapter 12: Verse 22
"What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: " 'The fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'?
Ezekiel Chapter 18: Verse 2
Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Are my ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
Ezekiel Chapter 18: Verse 29
Then I said, "Ah, Sovereign LORD! They are saying of me, 'Isn't he just telling parables?' "
Ezekiel Chapter 20: Verse 49
Yet, O house of Israel, you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' But I will judge each of you according to his own ways." Jerusalem's Fall Explained
Ezekiel Chapter 33: Verse 20
"As for you, son of man, your countrymen are talking together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, saying to each other, 'Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD.'
Ezekiel Chapter 33: Verse 30
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: The enemy said of you, "Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession." '
Ezekiel Chapter 36: Verse 2
Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god will be able to rescue you from my hand?"
Daniel Chapter 3: Verse 15
He will cause deceit to prosper, and he will consider himself superior. When they feel secure, he will destroy many and take his stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be destroyed, but not by human power.
Daniel Chapter 8: Verse 25
On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers.
Hosea Chapter 7: Verse 5
Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I long to redeem them but they speak lies against me.
Hosea Chapter 7: Verse 13
I trained them and strengthened them, but they plot evil against me.
Hosea Chapter 7: Verse 15
Woe to you who long for the day of the LORD! Why do you long for the day of the LORD ? That day will be darkness, not light.
Amos Chapter 5: Verse 18
Now then, hear the word of the LORD. You say, " 'Do not prophesy against Israel, and stop preaching against the house of Isaac.'
Amos Chapter 7: Verse 16
Then my enemy will see it and will be covered with shame, she who said to me, "Where is the LORD your God?" My eyes will see her downfall; even now she will be trampled underfoot like mire in the streets.
Micah Chapter 7: Verse 10
At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those who are complacent, who are like wine left on its dregs, who think, 'The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.'
Zephaniah Chapter 1: Verse 12
"You place defiled food on my altar. "But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' "By saying that the LORD's table is contemptible.
Malachi Chapter 1: Verse 7
"You have said harsh things against me," says the LORD. "Yet you ask, 'What have we said against you?'
"You have said, 'It is futile to serve God. What did we gain by carrying out his requirements and going about like mourners before the LORD Almighty?
Malachi Chapter 3: Verses 13 - 14
But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, "It is only by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons."
Matthew Chapter 12: Verse 24
"Then the man who had received the one talent came. 'Master,' he said, 'I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
So I was afraid and went out and hid your talent in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.'
"His master replied, 'You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed?
Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.
Matthew Chapter 25: Verses 24 - 27
Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads
and saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!"
In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him.
"He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! He's the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, 'I am the Son of God.' "
In the same way the robbers who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.The Death of Jesus
Matthew Chapter 27: Verses 39 - 44
Jesus said to them, "Surely you will quote this proverb to me: 'Physician, heal yourself! Do here in your hometown what we have heard that you did in Capernaum.' "
Luke Chapter 4: Verse 23
"But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, 'We don't want this man to be our king.'
Luke Chapter 19: Verse 14
But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them,bring them here and kill them in front of me."The Triumphal Entry
Luke Chapter 19: Verse 27
Some, however, made fun of them and said, "They have had too much wine. "Peter Addresses the Crowd
Acts Chapter 2: Verse 13
When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and talked abusively against what Paul was saying.
Acts Chapter 13: Verse 45
A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to dispute with him. Some of them asked, "What is this babbler trying to say?" Others remarked, "He seems to be advocating foreign gods." They said this because Paul was preaching the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
Acts Chapter 17: Verse 18
When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, "We want to hear you again on this subject."
Acts Chapter 17: Verse 32
(The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)
Acts Chapter 23: Verse 8
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' "
Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?
Romans Chapter 9: Verses 20 - 21
How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews Chapter 10: Verse 29
But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them,bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2 Peter Chapter 2: Verse 1
First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
2 Peter Chapter 3: Verse 3
For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.
Jude Chapter 1: Verse 4
to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him."
Jude Chapter 1: Verse 15
They said to you, "In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires."
Jude Chapter 1: Verse 18
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