1 Samuel 2:24

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No, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the LORD’s people is not good.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 32:21 : 21 Moses said to Aaron,“What did this people do to you, that you have brought on them so great a sin?”
  • 1 Sam 2:17 : 17 The sin of these young men was very great in the LORD’s sight, for they treated the LORD’s offering with contempt.
  • 1 Sam 2:22 : 22 Eli was very old. And he would hear about everything that his sons used to do to all the people of Israel and how they used to go to bed with the women who were stationed at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
  • 1 Kgs 13:18-21 : 18 Then the old prophet said,“I too am a prophet like you. And an angel has told me in a message from the LORD,‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat food and drink water.’” But he had lied to him. 19 So the prophet went back with him. He ate food in his house and he drank water. 20 While they were sitting at the table, the LORD’s message came to the old prophet who had brought him back. 21 So he cried out to the prophet who had come from Judah,“This is what the LORD has said,‘You have rebelled against the LORD’s instruction and have not obeyed the command the LORD your God gave you.
  • 1 Kgs 15:30 : 30 This happened because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit. These sins angered the LORD God of Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 10:31 : 31 But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the LORD God of Israel. He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit.
  • Mal 2:8 : 8 You, however, have turned from the way. You have caused many to violate the law; you have corrupted the covenant with Levi,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Matt 18:7 : 7 Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.
  • Acts 6:3 : 3 But carefully select from among you, brothers, seven men who are well-attested, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this necessary task.
  • 2 Cor 6:8 : 8 through glory and dishonor, through slander and praise; regarded as impostors, and yet true;
  • 1 Tim 3:7 : 7 And he must be well thought of by those outside the faith, so that he may not fall into disgrace and be caught by the devil’s trap.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.
  • 3 John 1:12 : 12 Worthy Demetrius Demetrius has been testified to by all, even by the truth itself. We also testify to him, and you know that our testimony is true.
  • Rev 2:20 : 20 But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and by her teaching deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

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