Isaiah 48:1

God addresses Israel, who swears by his name but not in truth or righteousness. Outward religion without sincerity is empty.

Cross-references · 39

• Jer 4:2and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”
• Ps 68:26Bless God in the great congregation; bless the LORD from the fountain of Israel.
• Matt 15:8–9‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
• Jer 5:2Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
• Deut 6:13Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.
• Isa 65:16Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My sight.
• Isa 1:10–14Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
• Gen 32:28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
• Jer 7:9–10Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
• Ps 50:16–20To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
• Isa 62:8The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.
• Ps 63:11But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.
• Gen 35:10And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.
• Matt 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
• 1 Tim 4:2influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
• Isa 58:2For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
• Rom 2:17Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
• Isa 26:13O LORD our God, other lords besides You have had dominion, but Your name alone do we confess.
• 2 Kgs 17:34To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
• Deut 10:20You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.
• Num 24:7Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.
• Deut 33:28So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.
• Zeph 1:5those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,
• 2 Tim 3:2–5For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
• Lev 19:12You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
• John 1:47When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”
• Rom 2:28–29A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
• Rom 9:8So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.
• Isa 45:23By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.
• John 4:24God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”
• Rev 2:9I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.
• Isa 44:5One will say, ‘I belong to the LORD,’ another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and still another will write on his hand, ‘The LORD’s,’ and will take the name of Israel.”
• Mal 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Rev 3:9Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead. I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you.
• Prov 5:16Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
• Deut 5:28And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.
• Rom 9:6It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
• Ps 66:3Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
• Exod 23:13Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.

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