Verse 27

Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against Me.

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  • Jer 5:31 : 31 The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end thereof?
  • Isa 28:7 : 7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
  • Ezek 16:3 : 3 And say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.
  • Ezek 22:25-28 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in its midst. 26 Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned My holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and unholy, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being a priest to me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
  • Mic 3:11 : 11 The leaders judge for reward, and the priests teach for hire, and the prophets divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.
  • Zech 1:4-6 : 4 Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts: Turn now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds. But they did not hear nor listen to Me, says the LORD. 5 Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? 6 But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? Then they returned and said: Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has dealt with us.
  • Mal 2:4-8 : 4 And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with Levi, says the LORD of hosts. 5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me and was afraid before my name. 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found on his lips; he walked with me in peace and equity and turned many away from iniquity. 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. 8 But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.
  • Mal 3:7 : 7 Even from the days of your fathers you have gone away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD of hosts. But you said, 'In what way shall we return?'.
  • Matt 15:14 : 14 Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
  • Matt 27:1 : 1 When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.
  • Matt 27:41 : 41 Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,
  • John 11:49-53 : 49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, You know nothing at all, 50 Nor do you consider that it is better for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish. 51 Now this he did not say on his own authority: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation; 52 And not for that nation only, but also that he would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad. 53 Then from that day on, they plotted to put him to death.
  • Acts 5:17-18 : 17 Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with indignation, 18 And laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
  • Rom 5:12 : 12 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned:
  • Isa 56:10-12 : 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yes, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his territory. 12 Come, they say, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.
  • Jer 3:25 : 25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
  • Jer 23:11-15 : 11 For both prophet and priest are profane. Yes, in my house I have found their wickedness, says the LORD. 12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it; for I will bring disaster upon them, the year of their punishment, says the LORD. 13 And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal and caused my people Israel to err. 14 I have also seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none returns from his wickedness. They are all to me as Sodom, and the inhabitants of it as Gomorrah. 15 Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem profaneness has gone forth into all the land.
  • Lam 4:13-14 : 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst, 14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have defiled themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
  • Num 32:14 : 14 And, behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to add still more to the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
  • Ps 78:8 : 8 And might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
  • Ps 106:6-7 : 6 We have sinned with our ancestors, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. 7 Our ancestors did not understand your wonders in Egypt; they did not remember the multitude of your mercies, but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
  • Isa 3:12 : 12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
  • Isa 9:15 : 15 The elder and honorable, he is the head; and the prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail.