Psalms 50:16

God challenges the wicked who recite His laws and claim His covenant while living in rebellion. Profession without obedience is hypocrisy.

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• Isa 29:13The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
• Ps 78:36–38But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
• Ps 25:14The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
• Rom 2:17–24Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
• Isa 48:1–2“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness
• Heb 8:9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.
• Prov 26:7Like the legs of the lame that hang loose, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
• John 4:24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
• 2 Pet 2:15forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;
• Isa 1:11–15“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
• Isa 58:1–7“Cry aloud, don’t spare. Lift up your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
• 1 Cor 9:27but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
• Ezek 20:37–38“I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
• Ezek 18:27Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
• Matt 7:22–23Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
• Matt 7:3–5Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?
• Acts 19:13–16But some of the itinerant Jews, exorcists, took on themselves to invoke over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”
• Jer 7:4–7Don’t trust in lying words, saying, ‘Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.’
• Isa 48:22“There is no peace”, says Yahweh, “for the wicked.”

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