Zechariah 5:3 Cross References
Zechariah 5:3
3: Then he said to me, "This scroll contains the curse that is going out over the entire land. One side says that those who steal will be banished from the land; the other side says that those who swear falsely will be banished from the land.
Exodus 20:15
- "Do not steal.
Isaiah 24:6
- Therefore, a curse consumes the earth and its people. They are left desolate, destroyed by fire. Few will be left alive.
Isaiah 43:28
- That is why I have disgraced your priests and assigned Israel a future of complete destruction and shame.
Isaiah 48:1
- "Listen to me, O family of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and born into the family of Judah. Listen, you who take oaths in the name of the LORD and call on the God of Israel. You don't follow through on any of your promises,
Jeremiah 26:6
- then I will destroy this Temple as I destroyed Shiloh, the place where the Tabernacle was located. And I will make Jerusalem an object of cursing in every nation on earth.'"
Leviticus 19:12
- "Do not use my name to swear a falsehood and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
Zechariah 5:4
- And this is what the LORD Almighty says: I am sending this curse into the house of every thief and into the house of everyone who swears falsely by my name. And my curse will remain in that house until it is completely destroyed--even its timbers and stones."
Malachi 4:6
- His preaching will turn the hearts of parents to their children, and the hearts of children to their parents. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse."
Jeremiah 5:2
- Even when they are under oath, saying, `As surely as the LORD lives,' they all tell lies!"
Malachi 3:5
- At that time I will put you on trial. I will be a ready witness against all sorcerers and adulterers and liars. I will speak against those who cheat employees of their wages, who oppress widows and orphans, or who deprive the foreigners living among you of justice, for these people do not fear me," says the LORD Almighty.
Ezekiel 17:13
- He made a treaty with a member of the royal family and made him take an oath of loyalty. He also exiled Israel's most influential leaders,
- so Israel would not become strong again and revolt. Only by keeping her treaty with Babylon could Israel maintain her national identity.
- "Nevertheless, this man of Israel's royal family rebelled against Babylon, sending ambassadors to Egypt to request a great army and many horses. Can Israel break her sworn treaties like that and get away with it?
- No! For as surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, the king of Israel will die in Babylon, the land of the king who put him in power and whose treaty he despised and broke.
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.
Jeremiah 7:9
- Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and worship Baal and all those other new gods of yours,
Proverbs 29:24
- If you assist a thief, you are only hurting yourself. You will be punished if you report the crime, but you will be cursed if you don't.
Matthew 25:41
- "Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, 'Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his demons!
Hosea 4:2
- You curse and lie and kill and steal and commit adultery. There is violence everywhere, with one murder after another.
1 Timothy 1:9
- But they were not made for people who do what is right. They are for people who are disobedient and rebellious, who are ungodly and sinful, who consider nothing sacred and defile what is holy, who murder their father or mother or other people.
Ephesians 4:28
- If you are a thief, stop stealing. Begin using your hands for honest work, and then give generously to others in need.
Psalms 109:17
- He loved to curse others; now you curse him. He never blessed others; now don't you bless him.
- Cursing is as much a part of him as his clothing, or as the water he drinks, or the rich food he eats.
- Now may his curses return and cling to him like clothing; may they be tied around him like a belt.
- May those curses become the LORD's punishment for my accusers who are plotting against my life.
Daniel 9:11
- All Israel has disobeyed your law and turned away, refusing to listen to your voice. "So now the solemn curses and judgments written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out against us because of our sin.
Matthew 5:33
- "Again, you have heard that the law of Moses says, 'Do not break your vows; you must carry out the vows you have made to the Lord.'
- But I say, don't make any vows! If you say, 'By heaven!' it is a sacred vow because heaven is God's throne.
- And if you say, 'By the earth!' it is a sacred vow because the earth is his footstool. And don't swear, 'By Jerusalem!' for Jerusalem is the city of the great King.
- Don't even swear, 'By my head!' for you can't turn one hair white or black.
- Just say a simple, 'Yes, I will,' or 'No, I won't.' Your word is enough. To strengthen your promise with a vow shows that something is wrong.
Deuteronomy 11:28
- You will receive a curse if you reject the commands of the LORD your God and turn from his way by worshiping foreign gods.
- "When the LORD your God brings you into the land to possess it, you must pronounce a blessing from Mount Gerizim and a curse from Mount Ebal.
Proverbs 3:33
- The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but his blessing is on the home of the upright.
James 5:4
- For listen! Hear the cries of the field workers whom you have cheated of their pay. The wages you held back cry out against you. The cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
Luke 21:35
- as in a trap. For that day will come upon everyone living on the earth.
James 5:12
- But most of all, my brothers and sisters, never take an oath, by heaven or earth or anything else. Just say a simple yes or no, so that you will not sin and be condemned for it.
Deuteronomy 27:15
- `Cursed is anyone who carves or casts idols and secretly sets them up. These idols, the work of craftsmen, are detestable to the LORD.' And all the people will reply, `Amen.'
- `Cursed is anyone who despises father or mother.' And all the people will reply, `Amen.'
- `Cursed is anyone who steals property from a neighbor by moving a boundary marker.' And all the people will reply, `Amen.'
- `Cursed is anyone who leads a blind person astray on the road.' And all the people will reply, `Amen.'
- `Cursed is anyone who is unjust to foreigners, orphans, and widows.' And all the people will reply, `Amen.'
Galatians 3:10
- But those who depend on the law to make them right with God are under his curse, for the Scriptures say, "Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all these commands that are written in God's Book of the Law."
- Consequently, it is clear that no one can ever be right with God by trying to keep the law. For the Scriptures say, "It is through faith that a righteous person has life."
- How different from this way of faith is the way of law, which says, "If you wish to find life by obeying the law, you must obey all of its commands."
- But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing. For it is written in the Scriptures, "Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree."
1 Corinthians 6:7
- To have such lawsuits at all is a real defeat for you. Why not just accept the injustice and leave it at that? Why not let yourselves be cheated?
- But instead, you yourselves are the ones who do wrong and cheat even your own Christian brothers and sisters.
- Don't you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,
Deuteronomy 28:15
- "But if you refuse to listen to the LORD your God and do not obey all the commands and laws I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overwhelm you:
- You will be cursed in your towns and in the country.
- You will be cursed with baskets empty of fruit, and with kneading bowls empty of bread.
- You will be cursed with few children and barren fields. You will be cursed with infertile herds and flocks.
- You will be cursed wherever you go, both in coming and in going.
Jeremiah 23:10
- For the land is full of adultery, and it lies under a curse. The land itself is in mourning--its pastures are dried up. For the prophets do evil and abuse their power.
Proverbs 30:9
- For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, "Who is the LORD?" And if I am too poor, I may steal and thus insult God's holy name.
Malachi 3:8
- "Should people cheat God? Yet you have cheated me! "But you ask, `What do you mean? When did we ever cheat you?'"You have cheated me of the tithes and offerings due to me.
- You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me.
- Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do," says the LORD Almighty, "I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in! Try it! Let me prove it to you!
Revelation 22:15
- Outside the city are the dogs--the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idol worshipers, and all who love to live a lie.
Revelation 21:8
- But cowards who turn away from me, and unbelievers, and the corrupt, and murderers, and the immoral, and those who practice witchcraft, and idol worshipers, and all liars--their doom is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death."
Zechariah 8:17
- Do not make evil plots to harm each other. And stop this habit of swearing to things that are false. I hate all these things, says the LORD."
Deuteronomy 29:19
- Let none of those who hear the warnings of this curse consider themselves immune, thinking, `I am safe, even though I am walking in my own stubborn way.' This would lead to utter ruin!
- The LORD will not pardon such people. His anger and jealousy will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will come down on them, and the LORD will erase their names from under heaven.
- The LORD will separate them from all the tribes of Israel, to pour out on them all the covenant curses recorded in this Book of the Law.
- "Then the generations to come, both your own descendants and the foreigners who come from distant lands, will see the devastation of the land and the diseases the LORD will send against it.
- They will find its soil turned into sulfur and salt, with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It will be just like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his anger.
Hebrews 6:6
- and who then turn away from God. It is impossible to bring such people to repentance again because they are nailing the Son of God to the cross again by rejecting him, holding him up to public shame.
- When the ground soaks up the rain that falls on it and bears a good crop for the farmer, it has the blessing of God.
- But if a field bears thistles and thorns, it is useless. The farmer will condemn that field and burn it.