Romans 1:30

“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

“ ‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother. His blood shall be upon himself.

If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion. He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

When he again brings in the firstborn into the world he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him.”

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

They shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat idols, after which they play the prostitute. This shall be a statute forever to them throughout their generations.’

It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.

“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.

One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

“Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.

for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant,” says Yahweh; “for I am with you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you; but I will not make a full end of you, but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, “Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

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.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

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,

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, and don’t walk after other gods to your own hurt;

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

Aren’t you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?”

But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, Yahweh, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”

‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

if I sharpen my glittering sword, my hand grasps it in judgment; I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and will repay those who hate me.

The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’ ”

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!

You answered them, Yahweh our God. You are a God who forgave them, although you took vengeance for their doings.

Thus they were defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

The north wind produces rain; so a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Behold, I have only found this: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes.”

Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.” ’

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. They will cause some of you to be put to death.

The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.