rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the cou
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.
Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redee
You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful
“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their ow
They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good d
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the
Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the na
For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, an
But whoever denies Me before men, I will also deny him before My Father in heaven.
For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He look
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
Ephraim surrounds Me with lies, the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still walks with God and is faithful to the H
But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.
I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it i
When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery,
O LORD, the hope of Israel, all who abandon You will be put to shame. All who turn away will be written in the dust, for
Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” de
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your
For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he l
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adu
Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by
Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutte
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.
As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I
But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.