Isaiah 59:6 Cross References
Isaiah 59:6
6: They cheat and shortchange everyone. Nothing they do is productive; all their activity is filled with sin. Violence is their trademark.
Jeremiah 6:7
- She spouts evil like a fountain! Her streets echo with the sounds of violence and destruction. Her sickness and sores are ever before me.
Revelation 3:17
- You say, 'I am rich. I have everything I want. I don't need a thing!' And you don't realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.
- I advise you to buy gold from me--gold that has been purified by fire. Then you will be rich. And also buy white garments so you will not be shamed by your nakedness. And buy ointment for your eyes so you will be able to see.
Isaiah 57:12
- "Now I will expose your so-called good deeds that you consider so righteous. None of them will benefit or save you.
Micah 3:1
- Listen, you leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong,
- but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
- You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.
- Then you beg the LORD for help in times of trouble! Do you really expect him to listen? After all the evil you have done, he won't even look at you!
- This is what the LORD says to you false prophets: "You are leading my people astray! You promise peace for those who give you food, but you declare war on anyone who refuses to pay you.
Zephaniah 1:9
- Yes, I will punish those who participate in pagan worship ceremonies, and those who steal and kill to fill their masters' homes with loot.
Micah 6:12
- The rich among you have become wealthy through extortion and violence. Your citizens are so used to lying that their tongues can no longer tell the truth.
Amos 3:10
- "My people have forgotten what it means to do right," says the LORD. "Their fortresses are filled with wealth taken by theft and violence.
Ezekiel 7:23
- "Prepare chains for my people, for the land is bloodied by terrible crimes. Jerusalem is filled with violence.
Isaiah 28:18
- I will cancel the bargain you made to avoid death, and I will overturn your deal to dodge the grave. When the terrible enemy floods in, you will be trampled into the ground.
- Again and again that flood will come, morning after morning, day and night, until you are carried away." This message will bring terror to your people.
- For you have no place of refuge--the bed you have made is too short to lie on. The blankets are too narrow to cover you.
Isaiah 30:1
- "Destruction is certain for my rebellious children," says the LORD. "You make plans that are contrary to my will. You weave a web of plans that are not from my Spirit, thus piling up your sins.
Isaiah 30:12
- This is the reply of the Holy One of Israel: "Because you despise what I tell you and trust instead in oppression and lies,
- calamity will come upon you suddenly. It will be like a bulging wall that bursts and falls. In an instant it will collapse and come crashing down.
- You will be smashed like a piece of pottery--shattered so completely that there won't be a piece left that is big enough to carry coals from a fireplace or a little water from the well."
Genesis 6:11
- Now the earth had become corrupt in God's sight, and it was filled with violence.
Romans 4:6
- King David spoke of this, describing the happiness of an undeserving sinner who is declared to be righteous:
- "Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sins are put out of sight.
- Yes, what joy for those whose sin is no longer counted against them by the Lord."
Ezekiel 7:11
- Their violence will fall back on them as punishment for their wickedness. None of these proud and wicked people will survive. All their wealth will be swept away.
Habakkuk 1:2
- How long, O LORD, must I call for help? But you do not listen! "Violence!" I cry, but you do not come to save.
- Must I forever see this sin and misery all around me? Wherever I look, I see destruction and violence. I am surrounded by people who love to argue and fight.
- The law has become paralyzed and useless, and there is no justice given in the courts. The wicked far outnumber the righteous, and justice is perverted with bribes and trickery.
Amos 6:3
- You push away every thought of coming disaster, but your actions only bring the day of judgment closer.
Job 8:14
- Everything they count on will collapse. They are leaning on a spiderweb.
- They cling to their home for security, but it won't last. They try to hold it fast, but it will not endure.
Isaiah 64:6
- We are all infected and impure with sin. When we proudly display our righteous deeds, we find they are but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall. And our sins, like the wind, sweep us away.
Isaiah 58:4
- What good is fasting when you keep on fighting and quarreling? This kind of fasting will never get you anywhere with me.
Psalms 58:2
- No, all your dealings are crooked; you hand out violence instead of justice.
Micah 2:8
- Yet to this very hour my people rise against me! You steal the shirts right off the backs of those who trusted you, making them as ragged as men who have just come home from battle.
Micah 2:1
- How terrible it will be for you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry out any of the wicked schemes you have power to accomplish.
- When you want a certain piece of land, you find a way to seize it. When you want someone's house, you take it by fraud and violence. No one's family or inheritance is safe with you around!
- But this is what the LORD says: "I will reward your evil with evil; you won't be able to escape! After I am through with you, none of you will ever again walk proudly in the streets."
Romans 3:20
- For no one can ever be made right in God's sight by doing what his law commands. For the more we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we aren't obeying it.
- But now God has shown us a different way of being right in his sight--not by obeying the law but by the way promised in the Scriptures long ago.
- We are made right in God's sight when we trust in Jesus Christ to take away our sins. And we all can be saved in this same way, no matter who we are or what we have done.
Isaiah 5:7
- This is the story of the LORD's people. They are the vineyard of the LORD Almighty. Israel and Judah are his pleasant garden. He expected them to yield a crop of justice, but instead he found bloodshed. He expected to find righteousness, but instead he heard cries of oppression.
Zephaniah 3:3
- Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims--out for everything they can get. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.
- Its prophets are arrogant liars seeking their own gain. Its priests defile the Temple by disobeying God's laws.