Luke 11:48

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”

A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law, and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.

Which of the prophets didn’t your fathers persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become betrayers and murderers.

They threw him out of the city and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.

Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and doesn’t sin.

They have denied Yahweh, and said, “It is not he. Evil will won’t come on us. We won’t see sword or famine.

I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn’t judge himself in that which he approves.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;

But after our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way.

I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,

Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

For Yahweh says, “Your hurt is incurable. Your wound is grievous.

For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.

“But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

They took him, beat him, and sent him away empty.

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

For the good which I desire, I don’t do; but the evil which I don’t desire, that I practice.

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, including those who pierced him. All the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant,

“Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.

Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”

David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Yahweh, Micaiah the son of Imlah; but I hate him, for he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.” Jehoshaphat said, “Don’t let the king say so.”

but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until Yahweh’s wrath arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

“But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don’t cry for help when he binds them.

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

“Yet you say, ‘Why doesn’t the son bear the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he will surely live.

“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? Do you play the prostitute after their abominations?

You have become guilty in your blood that you have shed, and are defiled in your idols which you have made! You have caused your days to draw near, and have come even to your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.

Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.