Psalms 50:17

These hypocrites actually hate God's instruction and cast His words aside. Their outward religion masks inward rejection of Him.

Cross-references · 16

• Neh 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
• 2 Tim 4:3–4For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
• Prov 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
• Prov 1:28–29Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
• 1 Kgs 14:9You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
• 2 Th 2:10–12and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
• Rom 2:21–23you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
• Rom 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
• Jer 8:9The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?
• Prov 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
• Jer 18:12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
• Prov 5:12–13and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
• John 3:20Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
• Prov 8:36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
• Isa 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
• Jer 36:23–32And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.

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