Isaiah 59:6

Their flimsy webs cannot clothe or cover them; their works are iniquity and violence. Human works of sin provide no real covering before God.

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• Jer 6:7As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me.
• Isa 57:12I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.
• Rev 3:17–18You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.
• Isa 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
• Rom 4:6–8And David speaks likewise of the blessedness of the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
• Isa 64:6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
• Isa 28:18–20Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
• Isa 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
• Job 8:14–15His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
• Amos 3:10“For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
• Amos 6:3You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
• Ezek 7:23Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
• Ezek 7:11Their violence has grown into a rod to punish their wickedness. None of them will remain: none of their multitude, none of their wealth, and nothing of value.
• Mic 6:12For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.
• Mic 3:1–11Then I said: “Hear now, O leaders of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel. Should you not know justice?
• Mic 2:1–3Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
• Mic 2:8But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.
• Zeph 1:9On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.
• Zeph 3:3–4Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
• Hab 1:2–4How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?
• Gen 6:11Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence.
• Ps 58:2No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
• Rom 3:20–22Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
• Isa 30:12–14Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
• Isa 58:4You fast with contention and strife to strike viciously with your fist. You cannot fast as you do today and have your voice be heard on high.

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