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Micah 3:11
Her leaders issue rulings for a bribe, her priests teach for payment, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean on the Lord, saying,“ Isn’t the Lord among us? No disaster will overtake us.”
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Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it like this. But what will you do at the end of it?
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Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are reckless— treacherous men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to instruction.
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Matthew 21:15
When the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonders that He did and the children shouting in the temple complex,“ Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant
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Ezekiel 22:25-26
The conspiracy of her prophets within her is like a roaring lion tearing its prey: they devour people, seize wealth and valuables, and multiply the widows within her.Her priests do violence to My instruction and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they do not explain the difference between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
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Acts 5:17
Then the high priest took action. He and all his colleagues, those who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.
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Acts 4:1-6
Now as they were speaking to the people, the priests, the commander of the temple police, and the Sadducees confronted them,because they were provoked that they were teaching the people and proclaiming the resurrection from the dead, using Jesus as the example.So they seized them and put them in custody until the next day, since it was already evening.But many of those who heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to about 5,000.The next day, their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalemwith Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John and Alexander, and all the members of the high-priestly family.
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Jeremiah 23:11-15
because both prophet and priest are ungodly, even in My house I have found their evil. This is the Lord’s declaration.Therefore, their way will be to them like slippery paths in the gloom. They will be driven away and fall down there, for I will bring disaster on them, the year of their punishment. This is the Lord’s declaration.Among the prophets of Samaria I saw something disgusting: They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel astray.Among the prophets of Jerusalem also I saw a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, and none turns his back on evil. They are all like Sodom to Me; Jerusalem’s residents are like Gomorrah.Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says concerning the prophets: I am about to feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.
