Matthew 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.”
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- Exod 10:3 : 3 So Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and told him,“This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has said:‘How long do you refuse to humble yourself before me? Release my people so that they may serve me!
- Exod 16:28 : 28 So the LORD said to Moses,“How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?
- Matt 16:8 : 8 When Jesus learned of this, he said,“You who have such little faith! Why are you arguing among yourselves about having no bread?
- Mark 9:19 : 19 He answered them,“You unbelieving generation! How much longer must I be with you? How much longer must I endure you? Bring him to me.”
- Mark 16:14 : 14 Then he appeared to the eleven themselves, while they were eating, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him resurrected.
- 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.”
- Luke 24:25 : 25 So he said to them,“You foolish people– how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
- John 20:27 : 27 Then he said to Thomas,“Put your finger here, and examine my hands. Extend your hand and put it into my side. Do not continue in your unbelief, but believe.”
- Acts 13:18 : 18 For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
- Heb 3:16-19 : 16 For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership? 17 And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? 19 So we see that they could not enter because of unbelief.
- Matt 6:30 : 30 And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, won’t he clothe you even more, you people of little faith?
- Matt 8:26 : 26 But he said to them,“Why are you cowardly, you people of little faith?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was dead calm.
- Matt 13:58 : 58 And he did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.
- Num 14:11 : 11 The Punishment from God The LORD said to Moses,“How long will this people despise me, and how long will they not believe in me, in spite of the signs that I have done among them?
- Num 14:27 : 27 “How long must I bear with this evil congregation that murmurs against me? I have heard the complaints of the Israelites that they murmured against me.
- Ps 95:10 : 10 For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said,‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’
- Prov 1:22 : 22 “How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?
- Prov 6:9 : 9 How long, you sluggard, will you lie there? When will you rise from your sleep?
- Jer 4:14 : 14 “Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?
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40 I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not do so.”
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