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Nehemiah 13:29
Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, and the Levites.
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Jeremiah 18:15
Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols! This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level.
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Malachi 2:5
“ My covenant with him was designed to bring life and peace. I gave its statutes to him to fill him with awe, and he indeed revered me and stood in awe before me.
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1 Samuel 2 17
The sin of these young men was very great in the LORD’s sight, for they treated the LORD’s offering with contempt.
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Isaiah 30:11
Turn aside from the way, stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”
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1 Samuel 2 30
Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, says,‘ I really did say that your house and your ancestor’s house would serve me forever.’ But now the LORD says,‘ May it never be! For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!
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Matthew 15:2-5
“ Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”He answered them,“ And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?For God said,‘ Honor your father and mother’ and‘ Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’But you say,‘ If someone tells his father or mother,“ Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”
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Psalms 119:102
I do not turn aside from your regulations, for you teach me.
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Malachi 2:9-10
“ Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your instruction.”Do we not all have one father? Did not one God create us? Why do we betray one another, in this way making light of the covenant of our ancestors?
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Isaiah 59:13
We have rebelled and tried to deceive the LORD; we turned back from following our God. We stir up oppression and rebellion; we tell lies we concocted in our minds.
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Romans 14:21
It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or to do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
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Leviticus 21:15
He must not profane his children among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him.’”
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Luke 11:45-46
One of the experts in religious law answered him,“ Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”But Jesus replied,“ Woe to you experts in religious law as well! You load people down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch the burdens with even one of your fingers!
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Hebrews 3:12
See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.
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Jeremiah 17:5
The LORD says,“ I will put a curse on people who trust in mere human beings, who depend on mere flesh and blood for their strength, and whose hearts have turned away from the LORD.
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Psalms 18:21
For I have obeyed the LORD’s commands; I have not rebelled against my God.
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Daniel 9:5-6
we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards.We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors, and to all the inhabitants of the land as well.
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Jeremiah 23:11-15
Moreover, the LORD says,“ Both the prophets and priests are godless. I have even found them doing evil in my temple!So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery. They will stumble and fall headlong. For I will bring disaster on them. A day of reckoning is coming for them.” The LORD affirms it!The LORD says,“ I saw the prophets of Samaria doing something that was disgusting. They prophesied in the name of the god Baal and led my people Israel astray.But I see the prophets of Jerusalem doing something just as shocking. They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies. So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil, with the result that they do not stop their evildoing. I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom, and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah.So then I, the LORD who rules over all, have something to say concerning the prophets of Jerusalem:‘ I will make these prophets eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment. For the prophets of Jerusalem are the reason that ungodliness has spread throughout the land.’”
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1 Samuel 2 24
This ought not to be, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the LORD’s people is not good.
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Romans 2:19-24
and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,an educator of the senseless, a teacher of little children, because you have in the law the essential features of knowledge and of the truth–therefore you who teach someone else, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!For just as it is written,“ the name of God is being blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
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Ezekiel 44:10
“‘ But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for their sin.
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Jeremiah 17:13
You are the one in whom Israel may find hope. All who leave you will suffer shame. Those who turn away from you will be consigned to the nether world. For they have rejected you, the LORD, the fountain of life.
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Isaiah 9:16
The leaders of this nation were misleading people, and the people being led were destroyed.