Not exact matches
Going to a rock band practice area (ie «den of
iniquity») most nights — one guy that would be there a few nights every other week was a rare
person.
He does not have enough knowledge to take him to heaven, but he does have enough sin to send him to hell — the
person who never hears of the name of Jesus doesn't go to hell because he has never heard the gospel, he goes to hell because he is a sinner, he is a monster of
iniquity, willingly disobedient to his own conscience that screams to him whenever he does wrong (Romans 2:12 - 16)-- and he loves it so...
Are oppressed
people ever going to be able to affirm judgment like Isaiah did when he declared: «For behold, the Lord is coming forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their
iniquity and the earth will disclose the blood shed upon her, and will no more cover her slain» (26:21)?
4 Ah, sinful nation, a
people laden with
iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly!
One might say that God leads his
people into an excess of
iniquity.
«Ah sinful nation,» he cried, «a
people laden with
iniquity, a seed of evil - doers, children that deal corruptly!
When Ezra cries, «Thou our God hast punished us less than our
iniquities deserve,» (Daniel 9:16) or a prayer in the Book of Nehemiah says, «Thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly,» (Nehemiah 9:33) or Daniel exhausts tautology in confessing, «We have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled,» (Daniel 9:5) we see the self - accusation which resulted from the acceptance of national misfortune not as an evidence of Yahweh's weakness in protecting his
people but as proof of his inflexible righteousness.
If his children forsake my law and do not walk according to my ordinances, if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments, then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their
iniquity with scourges; but I will not remove from him [that is, Israel, seen corporately in the
person of David] my stead - fast love, or be false to my faithfulness.
An incarnational theology that limits the significance of the earthly appearance of the second
person of the Trinity to the salvation of our souls from a world of
iniquity and eternal damnation must, inevitably, terminate in a devaluation of everything terrestrial.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our
iniquities... he was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth... he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my
people... although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth... he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors.
We can see that this might make sense to someone brought up in the ancient Jewish tradition in which an unblemished animal was sacrificed to God to make atonement for the sins of the
people, and in which the
iniquities of Israel were all put on the head of a goat which was then driven out into the wilderness, taking the
people's sins with it.
Jesus is indignant that the scribes and Pharisees (1) will not enter the kingdom of heaven themselves and stand in the way of others entering it as well; (2) will do almost anything to win a proselyte only to make that proselyte twice as much a child of hell as they are; (3) confuse
people by senseless oaths, telling them that if they swear by the Temple, their oath is not binding, but if they swear by the gold of the Temple, it is binding - the fools ought to realize, Jesus says, that the Temple includes all that is in it; (4) tithe some of their money but neglect justice and mercy and faith, which are weightier moral matters, when they ought both to tithe and perform these greater acts of righteousness as well; (5) are careful about outward cleanliness but careless about the inward disposition, so that they are filled with extortion and greed; (6) appear righteous but really are hypocrites, because their appearance hides all manner of
iniquity inside; (7) pretend to revere the prophets of history whom their parents killed but continue to practice the evil of their parents by rejecting those whom God sends to them now (Matt.
And thus saith the Lord God; I will cause that they shall be loathsome unto thy
people, save they shall repent of their
iniquities.»
when as a
people the
iniquity has reached the fullness of time, destruction will come and He is righteous and just in doing so because they refused the olive branch he has held out.
At a certain stage in the ritual the High Priest confessed all the
iniquities and transgressions of the
people with his hands resting on the head of the goat.
Yet you don't see weigh - ins preceding baptisms or
people holding «God Hates Gluttons» signs outside the den of
iniquity that is Ryan's Steakhouse.
I find it difficult to believe God / Jesus would approve of tattoos but whatever, the amount of
people who are truly christian is very low anyhow, If you ask me the desire to tattoo religious imagery onto yourself is quite shallow / conceited and I'm almost certain these
people are just pretending to be something they're not in an effort to fit in or be «cool», like the majority of so - called «Christians» Jesus will turn away from them and will «profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work
iniquity.»
0 God, forgive, I pray, the
iniquities and transgressions and sins which thy
people, the House of Israel, have committed and transgressed and sinned before thee... 32
O God, thy
people, the House of Israel, have committed
iniquity, transgressed, and sinned before thee.
God, they argued, will not `' pervert justice»; (Job 8:3) he never will «cast away a perfect man,» nor «uphold the evildoers»; (Job 8:20) the wicked man, therefore, «travaileth with pain all his days,» (Job 15:20) terrors «chase him at his heels,» (Job 18:11) and any triumph he may have «is short»; (Job 20:5) the just God allows trouble to fall exclusively on evil men, so that all trouble reveals the precedent wickedness of the sufferer, and to an afflicted
person like Job the proper message is, «God exacteth of thee less than thine
iniquity deserveth.»
«Behold the days are coming when I shall make a new covenant with the House of Israel... I will put my law within them, and write it upon their hearts, and I will be their God and they shall be my
people... for I will forgive their
iniquity and remember their sin no more.»
If you read later on, those dark skinned
people actually became in Gods Favor and those white skinned
people became shunned because of their
iniquities.
For example, Psalm 14:4 says that the workers of
iniquity «eat up my
people as they eat bread.»
Revelation 18:4 - 5 says, «And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my
people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her
iniquities (AKJV).»
''... let the Lord... go in the midst of us, although it is a stiff - necked
people; and pardon our
iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance» (34:9).
To such critics, no answer we give, no verse we quote, no explanation we provide can ever do away with the fact that Christianity seems to worship a bloodthirsty deity who required the death of others in order to forgive sins and cleanse
people of their
iniquity.
let the Lord... go in the midst of us, although it is a stiff - necked
people; and pardon our
iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance.
0 Lord, pardon now the
iniquities, the transgressions, and the sins which thy
people, the house of Israel, have iniquitously done,, transgressed and sinned before thee, as it is written in the law of Moses thy servant, «For on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins shall you be clean before the Lord» (v. 30).
If I say to the wicked, «You shall surely die,» and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked
person shall die for his
iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
Yes, that San Pedro, La Isla Bonita -LSB-...] San Pedro tends to get a terrible reputation for insularity, for wanting to be its own republic, for being a fleshpot of sin and
iniquity that constantly wants to kick
people off the island - and it deserves all that.