Isaiah 43:27 Cross References
Isaiah 43:27
27: From the very beginning, your ancestors sinned against me--all your leaders broke my laws.
Isaiah 28:7
- Now, however, Israel is being led by drunks! The priests and prophets reel and stagger from beer and wine. They make stupid mistakes as they carry out their responsibilities.
Jeremiah 5:31
- the prophets give false prophecies, and the priests rule with an iron hand. And worse yet, my people like it that way! But what will you do when the end comes?
Ezekiel 16:3
- Give her this message from the Sovereign LORD: You are nothing but a Canaanite! Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite!
Hosea 4:6
- My people are being destroyed because they don't know me. It is all your fault, you priests, for you yourselves refuse to know me. Now I refuse to recognize you as my priests. Since you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will forget to bless your children.
Malachi 3:7
- Ever since the days of your ancestors, you have scorned my laws and failed to obey them. Now return to me, and I will return to you," says the LORD Almighty. "But you ask, `How can we return when we have never gone away?'
John 11:49
- And one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, "How can you be so stupid?
- Why should the whole nation be destroyed? Let this one man die for the people."
- This prophecy that Jesus should die for the entire nation came from Caiaphas in his position as high priest. He didn't think of it himself; he was inspired to say it.
- It was a prediction that Jesus' death would be not for Israel only, but for the gathering together of all the children of God scattered around the world.
- So from that time on the Jewish leaders began to plot Jesus' death.
Jeremiah 3:25
- Let us now lie down in shame and dishonor, for we and our ancestors have always sinned against the LORD our God. We have never obeyed him."
Matthew 15:14
- so ignore them. They are blind guides leading the blind, and if one blind person guides another, they will both fall into a ditch."
Zechariah 1:4
- Do not be like your ancestors who would not listen when the earlier prophets said to them, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: Turn from your evil ways and stop all your evil practices.'
- "Your ancestors and their prophets are now long dead.
- But all the things I said through my servants the prophets happened to your ancestors, just as I said they would. As a result, they repented and said, `We have received what we deserved from the LORD Almighty. He has done what he said he would do.'"
Isaiah 56:10
- For the leaders of my people--the LORD's watchmen, his shepherds--are blind to every danger. They are like silent watchdogs that give no warning when danger comes. They love to lie around, sleeping and dreaming.
- And they are as greedy as dogs, never satisfied. They are stupid shepherds, all following their own path, all of them intent on personal gain.
- "Come," they say. "We will get some wine and have a party. Let's all get drunk. Let this go on and on, and tomorrow will be even better."
Matthew 27:1
- Very early in the morning, the leading priests and other leaders met again to discuss how to persuade the Roman government to sentence Jesus to death.
Isaiah 3:12
- Children oppress my people, and women rule over them. O my people, can't you see what fools your rulers are? They are leading you down a pretty garden path to destruction.
Jeremiah 23:11
- "The priests are like the prophets, all ungodly, wicked men. I have seen their despicable acts right here in my own Temple," says the LORD.
- "Therefore, their paths will be dark and slippery. They will be chased down dark and treacherous trails, where they will fall. For I will bring disaster upon them when their time of punishment comes. I, the LORD, have spoken!
- "I saw that the prophets of Samaria were terribly evil, for they prophesied by Baal and led my people of Israel into sin.
- But now I see that the prophets of Jerusalem are even worse! They commit adultery, and they love dishonesty. They encourage those who are doing evil instead of turning them away from their sins. These prophets are as wicked as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah once were."
- Therefore, this is what the LORD Almighty says concerning the prophets: "I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink. For it is because of Jerusalem's prophets that wickedness fills this land.
Acts 5:17
- The high priest and his friends, who were Sadducees, reacted with violent jealousy.
- They arrested the apostles and put them in the jail.
Lamentations 4:13
- Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets and priests, who defiled the city by shedding innocent blood.
- They wandered blindly through the streets, so defiled by blood that no one dared to touch them.
Malachi 2:4
- Then at last you will know it was I who sent you this warning so that my covenant with the Levites may continue," says the LORD Almighty.
- "The purpose of my covenant with the Levites was to bring life and peace, and this is what I gave them. This called for reverence from them, and they greatly revered me and stood in awe of my name.
- They passed on to the people all the truth they received from me. They did not lie or cheat; they walked with me, living good and righteous lives, and they turned many from lives of sin.
- The priests' lips should guard knowledge, and people should go to them for instruction, for the priests are the messengers of the LORD Almighty.
- But not you! You have left God's paths. Your `guidance' has caused many to stumble into sin. You have corrupted the covenant I made with the Levites," says the LORD Almighty.
Romans 5:12
- When Adam sinned, sin entered the entire human race. Adam's sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.
Matthew 27:41
- The leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the other leaders also mocked Jesus.
Micah 3:11
- You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."
Ezekiel 22:25
- Your princes plot conspiracies just as lions stalk their prey. They devour innocent people, seizing treasures and extorting wealth. They increase the number of widows in the land.
- Your priests have violated my laws and defiled my holy things. To them there is no difference between what is holy and what is not. And they do not teach my people the difference between what is ceremonially clean and unclean. They disregard my Sabbath days so that my holy name is greatly dishonored among them.
- Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!
- And your prophets announce false visions and speak false messages. They say, `My message is from the Sovereign LORD,' when the LORD hasn't spoken a single word to them. They repair cracked walls with whitewash!
Acts 7:51
- "You stubborn people! You are heathen at heart and deaf to the truth. Must you forever resist the Holy Spirit? But your ancestors did, and so do you!
Numbers 32:14
- But here you are, a brood of sinners, doing exactly the same thing! You are making the LORD even angrier with Israel.
Psalms 78:8
- Then they will not be like their ancestors--stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.
Psalms 106:6
- Both we and our ancestors have sinned. We have done wrong! We have acted wickedly!
- Our ancestors in Egypt were not impressed by the LORD's miracles. They soon forgot his many acts of kindness to them. Instead, they rebelled against him at the Red Sea.
Isaiah 9:15
- The leaders of Israel are the head, and the lying prophets are the tail.