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.

Cross-references · 25

• Jer 6:7As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.
• Isa 57:12I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
• Rev 3:17–18Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
• Isa 30:1Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
• Rom 4:6–8Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
• Isa 64:6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
• Isa 28:18–20And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
• Isa 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
• Job 8:14–15Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.
• Amos 3:10For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.
• Amos 6:3Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
• Ezek 7:23Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
• Ezek 7:11Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of any of theirs: neither shall there be wailing for them.
• Mic 6:12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
• Mic 3:1–11And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
• Mic 2:1–3Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Mic 2:8Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
• Zeph 1:9In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.
• Zeph 3:3–4Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
• Hab 1:2–4O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
• Gen 6:11The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
• Ps 58:2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
• Rom 3:20–22Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
• Isa 30:12–14Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
• Isa 58:4Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

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