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Jeremiah 4:2
and if in a truthful, just and righteous way you swear,‘ As surely as the Lord lives,’ then the nations will invoke blessings by him and in him they will boast.” (niv)
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Psalms 68:26
Praise God in the great congregation; praise the Lord in the assembly of Israel. (niv)
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Numbers 24:7
Water will flow from their buckets; their seed will have abundant water.“ Their king will be greater than Agag; their kingdom will be exalted. (niv)
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Jeremiah 5:2
Although they say,‘ As surely as the Lord lives,’ still they are swearing falsely.” (niv)
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Deuteronomy 6:13
Fear the Lord your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. (niv)
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Isaiah 45:23
By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear. (niv)
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Matthew 15:8-9
“‘ These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’” (niv)
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Jeremiah 7:9-10
“‘ Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say,“ We are safe”— safe to do all these detestable things? (niv)
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Isaiah 65:16
Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the one true God; whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the one true God. For the past troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my eyes. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 33:28
So Israel will live in safety; Jacob will dwell secure in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew. (niv)
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Proverbs 5:16
Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? (niv)
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2 Kings 17 34
To this day they persist in their former practices. They neither worship the Lord nor adhere to the decrees and regulations, the laws and commands that the Lord gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he named Israel. (niv)
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Isaiah 58:2
For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them. (niv)
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Romans 9:6
It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. (niv)
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Isaiah 1:10-14
Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!“ The multitude of your sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the Lord.“ I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.When you come to appear before me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of my courts?Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. (niv)
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Isaiah 26:13
Lord our God, other lords besides you have ruled over us, but your name alone do we honor. (niv)
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Romans 9:8
In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. (niv)
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Revelation 3:9
I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars— I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. (niv)
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Malachi 3:5
“ So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty. (niv)
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John 4:24
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” (niv)
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Deuteronomy 10:20
Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name. (niv)
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Psalms 66:3
Say to God,“ How awesome are your deeds! So great is your power that your enemies cringe before you. (niv)
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Psalms 50:16-20
But to the wicked person, God says:“ What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.You sit and testify against your brother and slander your own mother’s son. (niv)
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Isaiah 62:8
The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm:“ Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled; (niv)
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Leviticus 19:12
“‘ Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the Lord. (niv)
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2 Timothy 3 2-2 Timothy 3 5
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. (niv)
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Romans 2:17
Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; (niv)
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Romans 2:28-29
A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God. (niv)
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Genesis 35:10
God said to him,“ Your name is Jacob, but you will no longer be called Jacob; your name will be Israel.” So he named him Israel. (niv)
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Deuteronomy 5:28
The Lord heard you when you spoke to me, and the Lord said to me,“ I have heard what this people said to you. Everything they said was good. (niv)
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Exodus 23:13
“ Be careful to do everything I have said to you. Do not invoke the names of other gods; do not let them be heard on your lips. (niv)
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Zephaniah 1:5
those who bow down on the roofs to worship the starry host, those who bow down and swear by the Lord and who also swear by Molek, (niv)
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Psalms 63:11
But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God will glory in him, while the mouths of liars will be silenced. (niv)
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Matthew 23:13
“ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. (niv)
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1 Timothy 4 2
Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. (niv)
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Isaiah 44:5
Some will say,‘ I belong to the Lord’; others will call themselves by the name of Jacob; still others will write on their hand,‘ The Lord’s,’ and will take the name Israel. (niv)
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Revelation 2:9
I know your afflictions and your poverty— yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. (niv)
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John 1:47
When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him,“ Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.” (niv)
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Genesis 32:28
Then the man said,“ Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.” (niv)