Deuteronomy 32:5

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His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children– this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.

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  • Isa 1:4 : 4 Beware sinful nation, the people weighed down by evil deeds. They are offspring who do wrong, children who do wicked things. They have abandoned the LORD, and rejected the Holy One of Israel. They are alienated from him.
  • Matt 17:17 : 17 Jesus answered,“You unbelieving and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him here to me.”
  • Deut 31:29 : 29 For I know that after I die you will totally corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly before the LORD, inciting him to anger because of your actions.”
  • Phil 2:15 : 15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without blemish though you live in a crooked and perverse society, in which you shine as lights in the world
  • Luke 9:41 : 41 Jesus answered,“You unbelieving and perverse generation! How much longer must I be with you and endure you? Bring your son here.”
  • John 8:41 : 41 You people are doing the deeds of your father.”Then they said to Jesus,“We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 “You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, like your ancestors did!
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
  • Judg 2:19 : 19 When a leader died, the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one. They would follow after other gods, worshiping them and bowing down to them. They did not give up their practices or their stubborn ways.
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.
  • Hos 9:9 : 9 The Best of Times, the Worst of Times They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins.
  • Zeph 3:7 : 7 I thought,‘Certainly you will respect me! Now you will accept correction!’ If she had done so, her home would not be destroyed by all the punishments I have threatened. But they eagerly sinned in everything they did.
  • Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  • Matt 16:4 : 4 A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” Then he left them and went away.
  • Gen 6:12 : 12 God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.
  • Exod 32:7 : 7 The LORD spoke to Moses:“Go quickly, descend, because your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have acted corruptly.
  • Deut 4:16 : 16 I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,
  • Deut 9:24 : 24 You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!

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    18You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.

    19A Word of Judgment But the LORD took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.

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    8Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.

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    6Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your Creator? He has made you and established you.

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    28I reported,“All of them are the most stubborn of rebels! They are as hard as bronze or iron. They go about telling lies. They all deal corruptly.

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    9For these are rebellious people– they are lying children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s law.

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    15whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

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    8Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.

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    56Yet they challenged and defied God Most High, and did not obey his commands.

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    37They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.

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    19When a leader died, the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one. They would follow after other gods, worshiping them and bowing down to them. They did not give up their practices or their stubborn ways.

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    23But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone their own way.

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    20The LORD abhors those who are perverse in heart, but those who are blameless in their ways are his delight.

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