16 To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips? 17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you. 18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
Psalms 50:16–18
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1 Clement 35:6–8
6 For they that do these things are hateful to God; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent unto them. (1CL) 7 For the scripture saith, But unto the sinner said God, Wherefore dost thou declare Mine ordinances, and takest My covenant upon thy lips? (1CL) 8 Yet… (1CL)
Psalms 5:3–5
3 In the morning, O LORD, You hear my voice; at daybreak I lay my plea before You and wait in expectation. 4 For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You. 5 The boastful cannot stand in Your presence; You hate all workers of iniquity.
Job 34:7–9
7 What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water? 8 He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men. 9 For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
Psalms 119:117–119
117 Uphold me, and I will be saved, that I may always regard Your statutes. 118 You reject all who stray from Your statutes, for their deceitfulness is in vain. 119 All the wicked on earth You discard like dross; therefore I love Your testimonies.
Proverbs 28:3–5
3 A destitute leader who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no food. 4 Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law resist them. 5 Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.
Proverbs 5:11–13
11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent, 12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! 13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
Psalms 119:157–159
157 Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies. 158 I look on the faithless with loathing because they do not keep Your word. 159 Consider how I love Your precepts, O LORD; give me life according to Your loving devotion.
Psalms 52:2–4
2 Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit. 3 You love evil more than good, falsehood more than speaking truth. Selah 4 You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.
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