Verse 36

You must no longer say that the LORD’s message is burdensome. For what is‘burdensome’ really pertains to what a person himself says. You are misrepresenting the words of our God, the living God, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 speaking of these things in all his letters. Some things in these letters are hard to understand, things the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they also do to the rest of the scriptures.
  • 2 Kgs 19:4 : 4 Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the LORD your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”
  • Jer 10:10 : 10 The LORD is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury.
  • Matt 12:36 : 36 I tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak.
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 The king said to him,‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?
  • Acts 14:15 : 15 “Men, why are you doing these things? We too are men, with human natures just like you! We are proclaiming the good news to you, so that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.
  • Gal 1:7-9 : 7 not that there really is another gospel, but there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we(or an angel from heaven) should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be condemned to hell! 9 As we have said before, and now I say again, if any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let him be condemned to hell!
  • Gal 6:5 : 5 For each one will carry his own load.
  • 1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For people everywhere report how you welcomed us and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
  • 2 Pet 2:17-18 : 17 These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved. 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.
  • Ps 12:3 : 3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts!
  • Ps 64:8 : 8 Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder,
  • Ps 120:3 : 3 How will he severely punish you, you deceptive talker?
  • Ps 149:9 : 9 and execute the judgment to which their enemies have been sentenced. All his loyal followers will be vindicated. Praise the LORD!
  • Prov 17:20 : 20 The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.
  • Isa 3:8 : 8 Jerusalem certainly stumbles, Judah falls, for their words and their actions offend the LORD; they rebel against his royal authority.
  • Isa 28:13-14 : 13 So the LORD’s message to them will sound like meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there. As a result, they will fall on their backsides when they try to walk, and be injured, ensnared, and captured. 14 The Lord Will Judge Jerusalem Therefore, listen to the LORD’s message, you who mock, you rulers of these people who reside in Jerusalem!
  • Isa 28:22 : 22 So now, do not mock, or your chains will become heavier! For I have heard a message about decreed destruction, from the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, against the entire land.
  • Jude 1:15-16 : 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict every person of all their thoroughly ungodly deeds that they have committed, and of all the harsh words that ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.
  • Deut 5:26 : 26 Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?
  • 1 Sam 17:26 : 26 David asked the men who were standing near him,“What will be done for the man who strikes down this Philistine and frees Israel from this humiliation? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he defies the armies of the living God?”
  • 1 Sam 17:36 : 36 Your servant has struck down both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be just like one of them. For he has defied the armies of the living God!”