Proverbs 6:16

The LORD hates a specific list of sins, introduced by a numerical saying. God's holiness opposes these evils.

Cross-references · 25

• Ps 11:5The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
• Prov 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
• Prov 11:20They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the LORD: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.
• Deut 25:16For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
• Prov 17:15He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
• Prov 3:32For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
• Prov 11:1A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.
• Deut 24:4Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
• Prov 15:8–9The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
• Amos 1:3Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:
• Deut 18:10–12There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
• Amos 1:11Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever:
• Amos 1:6Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:
• Prov 20:23Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
• Deut 23:18Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
• Amos 2:1Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
• Prov 30:21For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
• Amos 1:9Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:
• Amos 2:6Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes;
• Amos 2:4Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
• Prov 20:10Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
• Prov 30:29There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going:
• Prov 30:18There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
• Prov 30:24There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
• Rev 21:27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

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