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Ezekiel 7:11
Violence has grown up into a rod of wickedness. None of them shall remain, nor their abundance, nor their wealth; neither shall there be preeminence among them.
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Isaiah 57:12
I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you.
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Jeremiah 6:7
As a well keeps its water fresh, so she keeps fresh her evil; violence and destruction are heard within her; sickness and wounds are ever before me.
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Isaiah 30:1
“ Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord,“ who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
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Isaiah 28:18-20
Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be beaten down by it.As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message.For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.
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Isaiah 64:6
We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
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Amos 3:10
“ They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord,“ those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”
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Job 8:14-15
His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider’s web.He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
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Romans 4:6-8
just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:“ Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
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Ezekiel 7:23
“ Forge a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
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Micah 3:1-11
And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice?—you who hate the good and love the evil, who tear the skin from off my people and their flesh from off their bones,who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones in pieces and chop them up like meat in a pot, like flesh in a cauldron.Then they will cry to the Lord, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who lead my people astray, who cry“ Peace” when they have something to eat, but declare war against him who puts nothing into their mouths.Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;the seers shall be disgraced, and the diviners put to shame; they shall all cover their lips, for there is no answer from God.But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,who build Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity.Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the Lord and say,“ Is not the Lord in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us.”
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Habakkuk 1:2-4
O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you“ Violence!” and you will not save?Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.
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Amos 6:3
O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence?
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Revelation 3:17-18
For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.
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Micah 6:12
Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
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Romans 3:20-22
For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
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Genesis 6:11
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.
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Isaiah 30:12-14
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,“ Because you despise this word and trust in oppression and perverseness and rely on them,therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach in a high wall, bulging out and about to collapse, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant;and its breaking is like that of a potter’s vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
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Micah 2:1-3
Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.Therefore thus says the Lord: behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster.
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Zephaniah 1:9
On that day I will punish everyone who leaps over the threshold, and those who fill their master’s house with violence and fraud.
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Isaiah 58:4
Behold, you fast only to quarrel and to fight and to hit with a wicked fist. Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high.
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Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!
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Micah 2:8
But lately my people have risen up as an enemy; you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly with no thought of war.
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Psalms 58:2
No, in your hearts you devise wrongs; your hands deal out violence on earth.
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Zephaniah 3:3-4
Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law.