Luke 7:30
But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were against the purpose of God for themselves, not having had his baptism.)
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- Matt 22:35 : 35 And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying,
- Luke 13:34 : 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!
- Acts 20:27 : 27 For I have not kept back from you anything of the purpose of God.
- Rom 10:21 : 21 But about Israel he says; All the day my hands have been stretched out to a people whose hearts were turned away, and who put themselves against my word.
- 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.
- Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.
- Eph 1:11 : 11 In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;
- Jer 8:8 : 8 How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.
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