Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances in which they should not live;
Parallel translations
- KJV Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;
- BSB I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and ordinances by which they could not live.
- NKJV “Therefore I also gave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live;
- NASB I also gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances by which they could not live;
- NLT I gave them over to worthless decrees and regulations that would not lead to life.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 81:12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
- Isa 66:4I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them; because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen; but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”
- Ezek 20:39“‘As for you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts, and with your idols.
- Ezek 20:26and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused all that opens the womb to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Yahweh.”’
- Ezek 14:9–11“‘“If the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, Yahweh, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand on him, and will destroy him from among my people Israel.
- Deut 4:27–28Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh will lead you away.
- 2 Th 2:9–11even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
- Deut 28:36Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.
- Rom 1:21–28Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.
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