Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’
For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”
and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
“For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”
and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.
But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed by wine, they stagger with strong drink, they reel in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.
He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the Lord!
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel.
But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?
And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
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.
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