Isaiah 5:20 Cross References
Isaiah 5:20
20: Destruction is certain for those who say that evil is good and good is evil; that dark is light and light is dark; that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.
Proverbs 17:15
- The LORD despises those who acquit the guilty and condemn the innocent.
2 Timothy 3:1
- You should also know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times.
- For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred.
- They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control; they will be cruel and have no interest in what is good.
- They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God.
- They will act as if they are religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. You must stay away from people like that.
Luke 16:15
- Then he said to them, "You like to look good in public, but God knows your evil hearts. What this world honors is an abomination in the sight of God.
Luke 11:34
- Your eye is a lamp for your body. A pure eye lets sunshine into your soul. But an evil eye shuts out the light and plunges you into darkness.
- Make sure that the light you think you have is not really darkness.
Matthew 6:22
- "Your eye is a lamp for your body. A pure eye lets sunshine into your soul.
- But an evil eye shuts out the light and plunges you into darkness. If the light you think you have is really darkness, how deep that darkness will be!
Job 17:12
- They say that night is day and day is night; how they pervert the truth!
Malachi 2:17
- You have wearied the LORD with your words. "Wearied him?" you ask. "How have we wearied him?" You have wearied him by suggesting that the LORD favors evildoers since he does not punish them. You have wearied him by asking, "Where is the God of justice?"
Amos 5:7
- You wicked people! You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the poor and oppressed. Righteousness and fair play are meaningless fictions to you.
2 Peter 2:1
- But there were also false prophets in Israel, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will cleverly teach their destructive heresies about God and even turn against their Master who bought them. Theirs will be a swift and terrible end.
2 Peter 2:18
- They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With lustful desire as their bait, they lure back into sin those who have just escaped from such wicked living.
- They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves to sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you.
Matthew 15:3
- Jesus replied, "And why do you, by your traditions, violate the direct commandments of God?
- For instance, God says, 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'Anyone who speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.'
- But you say, 'You don't need to honor your parents by caring for their needs if you give the money to God instead.'
- And so, by your own tradition, you nullify the direct commandment of God.
Malachi 3:15
- From now on we will say, "Blessed are the arrogant." For those who do evil get rich, and those who dare God to punish them go free of harm.'"
Matthew 23:16
- "Blind guides! How terrible it will be for you! For you say that it means nothing to swear 'by God's Temple'--you can break that oath. But then you say that it is binding to swear 'by the gold in the Temple.'
- Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold, or the Temple that makes the gold sacred?
- And you say that to take an oath 'by the altar' can be broken, but to swear 'by the gifts on the altar' is binding!
- How blind! For which is greater, the gift on the altar, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
- When you swear 'by the altar,' you are swearing by it and by everything on it.