slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.
For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.
As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire!
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others. But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you may be greatly enlarged,
For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law.
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God
For before these days Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.
Whoever hates me hates my Father also. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death.
From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
Father and mother are treated with contempt in you; the sojourner suffers extortion in your midst; the fatherless and the widow are wronged in you.
See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.
The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
The north wind brings forth rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.
but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.
O Lord our God, you answered them; you were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrongdoings.
All worshipers of images are put to shame, who make their boast in worthless idols; worship him, all you gods!
They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.
Those who hate the Lord would cringe toward him, and their fate would last forever.
To the choirmaster. A Maskil of David, when Doeg, the Edomite, came and told Saul, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day.
those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?
You say, ‘See, I have struck down Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”
But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.
And the king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.’”
“‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.
And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Arise, O Lord, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you.”
The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.
For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord.
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