EXCUSES

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• Genesis 3:12

  The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

• Genesis 3:13

  Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

• Exodus 4:1

  Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”

• Exodus 4:10

  Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

• Exodus 4:11

  Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?

• Exodus 4:12

  Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”

• Exodus 4:13

  He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”

• Exodus 4:14

  Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

• Exodus 32:22

  Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.

• Exodus 32:23

  For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’

• Exodus 32:24

  I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:’ so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”

• Deuteronomy 30:11

  For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant.

• Deuteronomy 30:12

  It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who will go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”

• Deuteronomy 30:13

  Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who will go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and proclaim it to us, that we may do it?”

• Deuteronomy 30:14

  But the word is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.

• Judges 6:12

  Yahweh’s angel appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”

• Judges 6:13

  Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

• Judges 6:14

  Yahweh looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”

• Judges 6:15

  He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

• Judges 6:16

  Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”

• Judges 6:17

  He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

• 1 Kings 19:19

  So he departed from there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth. Elijah went over to him, and put his mantle on him.

• 1 Kings 19:20

  Elisha left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”

• 1 Kings 19:21

  He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their meat with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.

• 2 Kings 5:10

  Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”

• 2 Kings 5:11

  But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’

• 2 Kings 5:12

  Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

• 2 Kings 5:13

  His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”

• 2 Kings 5:14

  Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

• Jeremiah 1:1

  The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.

• Jeremiah 1:4

  Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

• Jeremiah 1:5

  “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

• Jeremiah 1:6

  Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”

• Jeremiah 1:7

  But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for you must go to whomever I send you, and you must say whatever I command you.

• Jeremiah 1:8

  Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 1:9

  Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.

• Jeremiah 1:10

  Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

• Matthew 8:21

  Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

• Luke 9:59

  He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

• Luke 9:60

  But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

• Luke 9:61

  Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

• Luke 9:62

  But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

• Luke 14:18

  They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’

• Luke 14:19

  “Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’

• Luke 14:20

  “Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’

• Acts 24:25

  As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

• Romans 1:20

  For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

• Romans 2:1

  Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.