Ezekiel 20:39 Cross References

Ezekiel 20:39

39: "As for you, O people of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: If you insist, go right ahead and worship your idols, but then don't turn around and bring gifts to me. Such desecration of my holy name must stop!

Judges 10:14

  1. Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen! Let them rescue you in your hour of distress!"

Ezekiel 43:7

  1. And the LORD said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place where I will rest my feet. I will remain here forever, living among the people of Israel. They and their kings will not defile my holy name any longer by their adulterous worship of other gods or by raising monuments in honor of their dead kings.

Isaiah 1:13

  1. The incense you bring me is a stench in my nostrils! Your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath day, and your special days for fasting--even your most pious meetings--are all sinful and false. I want nothing more to do with them.
  2. I hate all your festivals and sacrifices. I cannot stand the sight of them!
  3. From now on, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen. For your hands are covered with the blood of your innocent victims.

Ezekiel 20:25

  1. I gave them over to worthless customs and laws that would not lead to life.
  2. I let them pollute themselves with the very gifts I had given them, and I allowed them to give their firstborn children as offerings to their gods--so I might devastate them and show them that I alone am the LORD.

Isaiah 66:3

  1. 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.

Romans 1:24

  1. So God let them go ahead and do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other's bodies.
  2. Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies. So they worshiped the things God made but not the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever. Amen.
  3. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.
  4. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relationships with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men and, as a result, suffered within themselves the penalty they so richly deserved.
  5. When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done.

Hosea 4:17

  1. Leave her alone because she is married to idolatry.

Matthew 6:24

  1. "No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Ezekiel 23:37

  1. They have committed both adultery and murder--adultery by worshiping idols and murder by burning their children as sacrifices on their altars.
  2. Then after doing these terrible things, they defiled my Temple and violated my Sabbath day!
  3. On the very day that they murdered their children in front of their idols, they boldly came into my Temple to worship! They came in and defiled my house!

Amos 4:4

  1. "Go ahead and offer your sacrifices to the idols at Bethel and Gilgal. Keep on disobeying--your sins are mounting up! Offer sacrifices each morning and bring your tithes every three days!
  2. Present your bread made with yeast as an offering of thanksgiving. Then give your extra voluntary offerings so you can brag about it everywhere! This is the kind of thing you Israelites love to do," says the Sovereign LORD.

Proverbs 21:27

  1. God loathes the sacrifice of an evil person, especially when it is brought with ulterior motives.

Jeremiah 7:9

  1. Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and worship Baal and all those other new gods of yours,
  2. and then come here and stand before me in my Temple and chant, "We are safe!"--only to go right back to all those evils again?
  3. Do you think this Temple, which honors my name, is a den of thieves? I see all the evil going on there, says the LORD.

Zephaniah 1:4

  1. "I will crush Judah and Jerusalem with my fist and destroy every last trace of their Baal worship. I will put an end to all the idolatrous priests, so that even the memory of them will disappear.
  2. For they go up to their roofs and bow to the sun, moon, and stars. They claim to follow the LORD, but then they worship Molech, too. So now I will destroy them!

2 Kings 3:13

  1. "I want no part of you," Elisha said to the king of Israel. "Go to the pagan prophets of your father and mother!" But King Joram said, "No! For it was the LORD who called us three kings here to be destroyed by the king of Moab!"

Revelation 3:15

  1. "I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish you were one or the other!
  2. But since you are like lukewarm water, I will spit you out of my mouth!

2 Thessalonians 2:11

  1. So God will send great deception upon them, and they will believe all these lies.

Psalms 81:12

  1. So I let them follow their blind and stubborn way, living according to their own desires.

Jeremiah 44:25

  1. The LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives have said that you will never give up your devotion and sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven, and you have proved it by your actions. Then go ahead and carry out your promises and vows to her!
  2. "But listen to this message from the LORD, all you Judeans now living in Egypt: I have sworn by my great name, says the LORD, that my name will no longer be spoken by any of the Judeans in the land of Egypt. None of you may invoke my name or use this oath: `As surely as the Sovereign LORD lives!'
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