Judges 17:13 Cross References

Judges 17:13

13: "I know the LORD will bless me now," Micah said, "because I have a Levite serving as my priest."

Jesus replied, "Every plant not planted by my heavenly Father will be rooted up,

For you will be expelled from the synagogues, and the time is coming when those who kill you will think they are doing God a service.

"I used to believe that I ought to do everything I could to oppose the followers of Jesus of Nazareth.

The poor, deluded fool feeds on ashes. He is trusting something that can give him no help at all. Yet he cannot bring himself to ask, "Is this thing, this idol that I'm holding in my hand, a lie?"

But those who choose their own ways, delighting in their sins, are cursed. Their offerings will not be accepted. When such people sacrifice an ox, it is no more acceptable than a human sacrifice. When they sacrifice a lamb or bring an offering of grain, it is as bad as putting a dog or the blood of a pig on the altar! When they burn incense, it is as if they had blessed an idol.
I will send great troubles against them--all the things they feared. For when I called, they did not answer. When I spoke, they did not listen. They deliberately sinned--before my very eyes--and chose to do what they know I despise."

Their worship is a farce, for they replace God's commands with their own man-made teachings.'"

I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal.
For they don't understand God's way of making people right with himself. Instead, they are clinging to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. They won't go along with God's way.

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