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 9:26“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
• 2 Tim 4:3–4For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;
• Prov 12:1Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
• Prov 1:28–29Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
• 1 Kgs 14:9but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;
• 2 Th 2:10–12and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
• Rom 2:21–23You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?
• Rom 1:28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• Jer 8:9The wise men are disappointed. They are dismayed and trapped. Behold, they have rejected Yahweh’s word. What kind of wisdom is in them?
• Prov 1:7The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
• Jer 18:12But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
• Prov 5:12–13and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
• John 3:20For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
• Prov 8:36But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
• Isa 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
• Jer 36:23–32When Jehudi had read three or four leaves, the king cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

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