“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in th
There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a
You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to y
But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the cle
“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside th
Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
When Samuel reached him, Saul said to him, “May the LORD bless you. I have carried out the LORD’s instructions.”
You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor
For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.
How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.