leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
but never again prophesy at Bethel, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a temple of the kingdom.”
who by a word make a man out to be an offender, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and with an empty plea turn aside him who is in the right.
They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
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