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 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
• 2 Tim 4:3–4For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
• Prov 12:1Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
• Prov 1:28–29Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
• 1 Kgs 14:9But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
• 2 Th 2:10–12And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• Rom 2:21–23Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
• Rom 1:28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
• Jer 8:9The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
• Prov 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• Jer 18:12And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
• Prov 5:12–13And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
• John 3:20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
• Prov 8:36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
• Isa 5:23Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
• Jer 36:23–32And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.

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