Malachi 2:9 所以我使你们被众人藐视，看为下贱；因你们不守我的道，竟在律法上瞻徇情面。”

2:9 MSG

逐节对照

新标点和合本 - 所以我使你们被众人藐视，看为下贱；因你们不守我的道，竟在律法上瞻徇情面。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 所以我使你们被众百姓藐视，看为卑贱；因你们不遵守我的道，在律法上看人的情面。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 所以我使你们被众百姓藐视，看为卑贱；因你们不遵守我的道，在律法上看人的情面。”
当代译本 - 因此，我必使你们在众人面前被藐视和轻贱。因为你们不遵守我的道，在教导上偏心待人。”
圣经新译本 - 因此，我也使你们在众人面前被藐视、受轻看，因为你们不遵守我的道，在律法上徇人的情面。”
中文标准译本 - 因此我就使你们在万民面前被藐视、被轻贱，因为你们不谨守我的道路，在我的训诲上顾及人的情面。”
现代标点和合本 - 所以我使你们被众人藐视，看为下贱，因你们不守我的道，竟在律法上瞻徇情面。”
和合本（拼音版） - 所以我使你们被众人藐视，看为下贱，因你们不守我的道，竟在律法上瞻徇情面。”
New International Version - “So I have caused you to be despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not followed my ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
New International Reader's Version - “So I have caused all the people to hate you. They have lost respect for you. You have not done what I told you to do. Instead, you have favored one person over another in matters of the law.”
English Standard Version - and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”
New Living Translation - “So I have made you despised and humiliated in the eyes of all the people. For you have not obeyed me but have shown favoritism in the way you carry out my instructions.”
Christian Standard Bible - “So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people because you are not keeping my ways but are showing partiality in your instruction.”
New American Standard Bible - “So I also have made you despised and of low reputation in the view of all the people, since you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction.”
New King James Version - “Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base Before all the people, Because you have not kept My ways But have shown partiality in the law.”
Amplified Bible - “So I have also made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality [to people] in [your administration of] the law.”
American Standard Version - Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
King James Version - Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
New English Translation - “Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your instruction.”
World English Bible - “Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
新標點和合本 - 所以我使你們被眾人藐視，看為下賤；因你們不守我的道，竟在律法上瞻徇情面。」
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 所以我使你們被眾百姓藐視，看為卑賤；因你們不遵守我的道，在律法上看人的情面。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 所以我使你們被眾百姓藐視，看為卑賤；因你們不遵守我的道，在律法上看人的情面。」
當代譯本 - 因此，我必使你們在眾人面前被藐視和輕賤。因為你們不遵守我的道，在教導上偏心待人。」
聖經新譯本 - 因此，我也使你們在眾人面前被藐視、受輕看，因為你們不遵守我的道，在律法上徇人的情面。”
呂振中譯本 - 故此我、我也使你們被眾民藐視，看為下賤，因為你們沒有謹守我的道路，竟在禮節規矩上瞻徇情面。』
中文標準譯本 - 因此我就使你們在萬民面前被藐視、被輕賤，因為你們不謹守我的道路，在我的訓誨上顧及人的情面。」
現代標點和合本 - 所以我使你們被眾人藐視，看為下賤，因你們不守我的道，竟在律法上瞻徇情面。」
文理和合譯本 - 因爾未守我道、在於法律、偏以待人、故我使爾成為可厭、眾民所鄙、○
文理委辦譯本 - 不從我道、偏視我法、故我使眾、藐視爾曹、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 爾不守我道、傳律法時、偏視不公、偏視不公或作瞻徇情面故我亦使爾為眾民所輕藐、視為卑賤、○
Nueva Versión Internacional - Por mi parte, yo he hecho que ustedes sean despreciables y viles ante todo el pueblo, porque no han guardado mis caminos, sino que han mostrado parcialidad en cuestiones de la ley».
현대인의 성경 - 너희가 내 뜻을 따르지 않고 율법 문제를 취급하는 데 있어서 편파적이었으므로 나도 너희가 모든 백성 앞에서 멸시와 천대를 받게 하였다.”
Новый Русский Перевод - и Я сделал вас презренными и унизил вас перед всем народом за то, что вы не хранили Моих путей и были пристрастны в делах Закона.
Восточный перевод - и Я сделал вас презренными и унизил вас перед всем народом за то, что вы не хранили Моих путей и были пристрастны в делах Закона.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - и Я сделал вас презренными и унизил вас перед всем народом за то, что вы не хранили Моих путей и были пристрастны в делах Закона.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - и Я сделал вас презренными и унизил вас перед всем народом за то, что вы не хранили Моих путей и были пристрастны в делах Закона.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Alors, de mon côté, je vous ai livrés au mépris et au dédain de tout le peuple, puisque vous, vous ne suivez pas les voies que j’ai prescrites et que vous avez montré de la partialité quand vous donnez vos instructions.
リビングバイブル - 「それゆえ、わたしはあなたがたを、すべての人の軽蔑の的にする。わたしに従わず、お気に入りの者たちが律法を破るままにし、叱責することもしなかったからだ。」
Nova Versão Internacional - “Por isso eu fiz que fossem desprezados e humilhados diante de todo o povo, porque vocês não seguem os meus caminhos, mas são parciais quando ensinam a Lei.”
Hoffnung für alle - Ihr haltet euch nicht an meine Gebote und seid auch noch parteiisch, wenn ihr Recht sprecht. Darum will ich dafür sorgen, dass ihr vor dem ganzen Volk erniedrigt werdet. Ja, alle werden euch einmal verachten!«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - “Cho nên, Ta làm cho các ngươi ra hèn hạ, đáng khinh trước mặt mọi người. Vì các ngươi không theo đường lối Ta, nhưng áp dụng luật lệ cách thiên vị.”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “ฉะนั้นเราจึงทำให้เจ้าตกต่ำและเป็นที่ดูหมิ่นต่อหน้าประชากรทั้งปวง เพราะเจ้าไม่ได้ปฏิบัติตามวิถีทางของเรา แต่นำบทบัญญัติของเรามาเลือกปฏิบัติ”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - “ดังนั้น เราได้ทำให้เจ้าเป็นที่ดูหมิ่นและอับอายต่อหน้าชนชาติทั้งปวง เพราะพวกเจ้าไม่ได้ดำเนินตามทางของเรา แต่กลับแสดงความลำเอียงในการสอนกฎบัญญัติ”

交叉引用

Proverbs 10:7 - A good and honest life is a blessed memorial; a wicked life leaves a rotten stench.
Matthew 23:16 - “You’re hopeless! What arrogant stupidity! You say, ‘If someone makes a promise with his fingers crossed, that’s nothing; but if he swears with his hand on the Bible, that’s serious.’ What ignorance! Does the leather on the Bible carry more weight than the skin on your hands? And what about this piece of trivia: ‘If you shake hands on a promise, that’s nothing; but if you raise your hand that God is your witness, that’s serious’? What ridiculous hairsplitting! What difference does it make whether you shake hands or raise hands? A promise is a promise. What difference does it make if you make your promise inside or outside a house of worship? A promise is a promise. God is present, watching and holding you to account regardless.
Matthew 23:23 - “You’re hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You keep meticulous account books, tithing on every nickel and dime you get, but on the meat of God’s Law, things like fairness and compassion and commitment—the absolute basics!—you carelessly take it or leave it. Careful bookkeeping is commendable, but the basics are required. Do you have any idea how silly you look, writing a life story that’s wrong from start to finish, nitpicking over commas and semicolons?
Ezekiel 13:13 - “And that’s exactly what will happen. I, God, the Master, say so: ‘I’ll let the hurricane of my wrath loose, a torrent of my hailstone-anger. I’ll make that wall you’ve slapped with whitewash collapse. I’ll level it to the ground so that only the foundation stones will be left. And in the ruin you’ll all die. You’ll realize then that I am God.
Ezekiel 13:15 - “‘I’ll dump my wrath on that wall, all of it, and on those who plastered it with whitewash. I will say to them, There is no wall, and those who did such a good job of whitewashing it wasted their time, those prophets of Israel who preached to Jerusalem and announced all their visions telling us things were just fine when they weren’t at all fine. Decree of God, the Master.’
Daniel 12:3 - “‘Men and women who have lived wisely and well will shine brilliantly, like the cloudless, star-strewn night skies. And those who put others on the right path to life will glow like stars forever.
Luke 10:29 - Looking for a loophole, he asked, “And just how would you define ‘neighbor’?”
Luke 11:42 - “I’ve had it with you! You’re hopeless, you Pharisees! Frauds! You keep meticulous account books, tithing on every nickel and dime you get, but manage to find loopholes for getting around basic matters of justice and God’s love. Careful bookkeeping is commendable, but the basics are required.
Matthew 5:43 - “You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the supple moves of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that.
Matthew 5:27 - “You know the next commandment pretty well, too: ‘Don’t go to bed with another’s spouse.’ But don’t think you’ve preserved your virtue simply by staying out of bed. Your heart can be corrupted by lust even quicker than your body. Those ogling looks you think nobody notices—they also corrupt.
Jeremiah 28:15 - So prophet Jeremiah told prophet Hananiah, “Hold it, Hananiah! God never sent you. You’ve talked the whole country into believing a pack of lies! And so God says, ‘You claim to be sent? I’ll send you all right—right off the face of the earth! Before the year is out, you’ll be dead because you instigated sedition against God.’”
Luke 20:45 - With everybody listening, Jesus spoke to his disciples. “Watch out for the religion scholars. They love to walk around in academic gowns, preen in the radiance of public flattery, bask in prominent positions, sit at the head table at every church function. And all the time they are exploiting the weak and helpless. The longer their prayers, the worse they get. But they’ll pay for it in the end.”
Jeremiah 29:20 - “And you—you exiles whom I sent out of Jerusalem to Babylon—listen to God’s Message to you. As far as Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah are concerned, the ‘Babylonian specialists’ who are preaching lies in my name, I will turn them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will kill them while you watch. The exiles from Judah will take what they see at the execution and use it as a curse: ‘God fry you to a crisp like the king of Babylon fried Zedekiah and Ahab in the fire!’ Those two men, sex predators and prophet-impostors, got what they deserved. They pulled every woman they got their hands on into bed—their neighbors’ wives, no less—and preached lies claiming it was my Message. I never sent those men. I’ve never had anything to do with them.” God’s Decree. “They won’t get away with a thing. I’ve witnessed it all.”
Mark 7:9 - He went on, “Well, good for you. You get rid of God’s command so you won’t be inconvenienced in following the religious fashions! Moses said, ‘Respect your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone denouncing father or mother should be killed.’ But you weasel out of that by saying that it’s perfectly acceptable to say to father or mother, ‘Gift! What I owed you I’ve given as a gift to God,’ thus relieving yourselves of obligation to father or mother. You scratch out God’s Word and scrawl a whim in its place. You do a lot of things like this.”
Mark 7:14 - Jesus called the crowd together again and said, “Listen now, all of you—take this to heart. It’s not what you swallow that pollutes your life; it’s what you vomit—that’s the real pollution.”
Matthew 19:17 - Jesus said, “Why do you question me about what’s good? God is the One who is good. If you want to enter the life of God, just do what he tells you.”
Matthew 19:18 - The man asked, “What in particular?” Jesus said, “Don’t murder, don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t lie, honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as you do yourself.”
Romans 7:7 - But I can hear you say, “If the law code was as bad as all that, it’s no better than sin itself.” That’s certainly not true. The law code had a perfectly legitimate function. Without its clear guidelines for right and wrong, moral behavior would be mostly guesswork. Apart from the succinct, surgical command, “You shall not covet,” I could have dressed covetousness up to look like a virtue and ruined my life with it.
Romans 7:8 - Don’t you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless, and I went along without paying much attention to it. But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it. The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong. So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. But the law code itself is God’s good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel.
Matthew 5:21 - “You’re familiar with the command to the ancients, ‘Do not murder.’ I’m telling you that anyone who is so much as angry with a brother or sister is guilty of murder. Carelessly call a brother ‘idiot!’ and you just might find yourself hauled into court. Thoughtlessly yell ‘stupid!’ at a sister and you are on the brink of hellfire. The simple moral fact is that words kill.
Matthew 5:33 - “And don’t say anything you don’t mean. This counsel is embedded deep in our traditions. You only make things worse when you lay down a smoke screen of pious talk, saying, ‘I’ll pray for you,’ and never doing it, or saying, ‘God be with you,’ and not meaning it. You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. Just say ‘yes’ and ‘no.’ When you manipulate words to get your own way, you go wrong.
1 Kings 22:28 - Micaiah said, “If you ever get back in one piece, I’m no prophet of God.” He added, “When it happens, O people, remember where you heard it!”
Galatians 2:6 - As for those who were considered important in the church, their reputation doesn’t concern me. God isn’t impressed with mere appearances, and neither am I. And of course these leaders were able to add nothing to the message I had been preaching. It was soon evident that God had entrusted me with the same message to the non-Jews as Peter had been preaching to the Jews. Recognizing that my calling had been given by God, James, Peter, and John—the pillars of the church—shook hands with me and Barnabas, assigning us to a ministry to the non-Jews, while they continued to be responsible for reaching out to the Jews. The only additional thing they asked was that we remember the poor, and I was already eager to do that.

逐节对照

交叉引用

新标点和合本 - 所以我使你们被众人藐视，看为下贱；因你们不守我的道，竟在律法上瞻徇情面。”
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 所以我使你们被众百姓藐视，看为卑贱；因你们不遵守我的道，在律法上看人的情面。”
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 所以我使你们被众百姓藐视，看为卑贱；因你们不遵守我的道，在律法上看人的情面。”
当代译本 - 因此，我必使你们在众人面前被藐视和轻贱。因为你们不遵守我的道，在教导上偏心待人。”
圣经新译本 - 因此，我也使你们在众人面前被藐视、受轻看，因为你们不遵守我的道，在律法上徇人的情面。”
中文标准译本 - 因此我就使你们在万民面前被藐视、被轻贱，因为你们不谨守我的道路，在我的训诲上顾及人的情面。”
现代标点和合本 - 所以我使你们被众人藐视，看为下贱，因你们不守我的道，竟在律法上瞻徇情面。”
和合本（拼音版） - 所以我使你们被众人藐视，看为下贱，因你们不守我的道，竟在律法上瞻徇情面。”
New International Version - “So I have caused you to be despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not followed my ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
New International Reader's Version - “So I have caused all the people to hate you. They have lost respect for you. You have not done what I told you to do. Instead, you have favored one person over another in matters of the law.”
English Standard Version - and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”
New Living Translation - “So I have made you despised and humiliated in the eyes of all the people. For you have not obeyed me but have shown favoritism in the way you carry out my instructions.”
Christian Standard Bible - “So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people because you are not keeping my ways but are showing partiality in your instruction.”
New American Standard Bible - “So I also have made you despised and of low reputation in the view of all the people, since you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction.”
New King James Version - “Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base Before all the people, Because you have not kept My ways But have shown partiality in the law.”
Amplified Bible - “So I have also made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality [to people] in [your administration of] the law.”
American Standard Version - Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
King James Version - Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
New English Translation - “Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your instruction.”
World English Bible - “Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
新標點和合本 - 所以我使你們被眾人藐視，看為下賤；因你們不守我的道，竟在律法上瞻徇情面。」
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 所以我使你們被眾百姓藐視，看為卑賤；因你們不遵守我的道，在律法上看人的情面。」
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 所以我使你們被眾百姓藐視，看為卑賤；因你們不遵守我的道，在律法上看人的情面。」
當代譯本 - 因此，我必使你們在眾人面前被藐視和輕賤。因為你們不遵守我的道，在教導上偏心待人。」
聖經新譯本 - 因此，我也使你們在眾人面前被藐視、受輕看，因為你們不遵守我的道，在律法上徇人的情面。”
呂振中譯本 - 故此我、我也使你們被眾民藐視，看為下賤，因為你們沒有謹守我的道路，竟在禮節規矩上瞻徇情面。』
中文標準譯本 - 因此我就使你們在萬民面前被藐視、被輕賤，因為你們不謹守我的道路，在我的訓誨上顧及人的情面。」
現代標點和合本 - 所以我使你們被眾人藐視，看為下賤，因你們不守我的道，竟在律法上瞻徇情面。」
文理和合譯本 - 因爾未守我道、在於法律、偏以待人、故我使爾成為可厭、眾民所鄙、○
文理委辦譯本 - 不從我道、偏視我法、故我使眾、藐視爾曹、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 爾不守我道、傳律法時、偏視不公、偏視不公或作瞻徇情面故我亦使爾為眾民所輕藐、視為卑賤、○
Nueva Versión Internacional - Por mi parte, yo he hecho que ustedes sean despreciables y viles ante todo el pueblo, porque no han guardado mis caminos, sino que han mostrado parcialidad en cuestiones de la ley».
현대인의 성경 - 너희가 내 뜻을 따르지 않고 율법 문제를 취급하는 데 있어서 편파적이었으므로 나도 너희가 모든 백성 앞에서 멸시와 천대를 받게 하였다.”
Новый Русский Перевод - и Я сделал вас презренными и унизил вас перед всем народом за то, что вы не хранили Моих путей и были пристрастны в делах Закона.
Восточный перевод - и Я сделал вас презренными и унизил вас перед всем народом за то, что вы не хранили Моих путей и были пристрастны в делах Закона.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - и Я сделал вас презренными и унизил вас перед всем народом за то, что вы не хранили Моих путей и были пристрастны в делах Закона.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - и Я сделал вас презренными и унизил вас перед всем народом за то, что вы не хранили Моих путей и были пристрастны в делах Закона.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Alors, de mon côté, je vous ai livrés au mépris et au dédain de tout le peuple, puisque vous, vous ne suivez pas les voies que j’ai prescrites et que vous avez montré de la partialité quand vous donnez vos instructions.
リビングバイブル - 「それゆえ、わたしはあなたがたを、すべての人の軽蔑の的にする。わたしに従わず、お気に入りの者たちが律法を破るままにし、叱責することもしなかったからだ。」
Nova Versão Internacional - “Por isso eu fiz que fossem desprezados e humilhados diante de todo o povo, porque vocês não seguem os meus caminhos, mas são parciais quando ensinam a Lei.”
Hoffnung für alle - Ihr haltet euch nicht an meine Gebote und seid auch noch parteiisch, wenn ihr Recht sprecht. Darum will ich dafür sorgen, dass ihr vor dem ganzen Volk erniedrigt werdet. Ja, alle werden euch einmal verachten!«
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - “Cho nên, Ta làm cho các ngươi ra hèn hạ, đáng khinh trước mặt mọi người. Vì các ngươi không theo đường lối Ta, nhưng áp dụng luật lệ cách thiên vị.”
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “ฉะนั้นเราจึงทำให้เจ้าตกต่ำและเป็นที่ดูหมิ่นต่อหน้าประชากรทั้งปวง เพราะเจ้าไม่ได้ปฏิบัติตามวิถีทางของเรา แต่นำบทบัญญัติของเรามาเลือกปฏิบัติ”
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - “ดังนั้น เราได้ทำให้เจ้าเป็นที่ดูหมิ่นและอับอายต่อหน้าชนชาติทั้งปวง เพราะพวกเจ้าไม่ได้ดำเนินตามทางของเรา แต่กลับแสดงความลำเอียงในการสอนกฎบัญญัติ”

Proverbs 10:7 - A good and honest life is a blessed memorial; a wicked life leaves a rotten stench.
Matthew 23:16 - “You’re hopeless! What arrogant stupidity! You say, ‘If someone makes a promise with his fingers crossed, that’s nothing; but if he swears with his hand on the Bible, that’s serious.’ What ignorance! Does the leather on the Bible carry more weight than the skin on your hands? And what about this piece of trivia: ‘If you shake hands on a promise, that’s nothing; but if you raise your hand that God is your witness, that’s serious’? What ridiculous hairsplitting! What difference does it make whether you shake hands or raise hands? A promise is a promise. What difference does it make if you make your promise inside or outside a house of worship? A promise is a promise. God is present, watching and holding you to account regardless.
Matthew 23:23 - “You’re hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You keep meticulous account books, tithing on every nickel and dime you get, but on the meat of God’s Law, things like fairness and compassion and commitment—the absolute basics!—you carelessly take it or leave it. Careful bookkeeping is commendable, but the basics are required. Do you have any idea how silly you look, writing a life story that’s wrong from start to finish, nitpicking over commas and semicolons?
Ezekiel 13:13 - “And that’s exactly what will happen. I, God, the Master, say so: ‘I’ll let the hurricane of my wrath loose, a torrent of my hailstone-anger. I’ll make that wall you’ve slapped with whitewash collapse. I’ll level it to the ground so that only the foundation stones will be left. And in the ruin you’ll all die. You’ll realize then that I am God.
Ezekiel 13:15 - “‘I’ll dump my wrath on that wall, all of it, and on those who plastered it with whitewash. I will say to them, There is no wall, and those who did such a good job of whitewashing it wasted their time, those prophets of Israel who preached to Jerusalem and announced all their visions telling us things were just fine when they weren’t at all fine. Decree of God, the Master.’
Daniel 12:3 - “‘Men and women who have lived wisely and well will shine brilliantly, like the cloudless, star-strewn night skies. And those who put others on the right path to life will glow like stars forever.
Luke 10:29 - Looking for a loophole, he asked, “And just how would you define ‘neighbor’?”
Luke 11:42 - “I’ve had it with you! You’re hopeless, you Pharisees! Frauds! You keep meticulous account books, tithing on every nickel and dime you get, but manage to find loopholes for getting around basic matters of justice and God’s love. Careful bookkeeping is commendable, but the basics are required.
Matthew 5:43 - “You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the supple moves of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best—the sun to warm and the rain to nourish—to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that.
Matthew 5:27 - “You know the next commandment pretty well, too: ‘Don’t go to bed with another’s spouse.’ But don’t think you’ve preserved your virtue simply by staying out of bed. Your heart can be corrupted by lust even quicker than your body. Those ogling looks you think nobody notices—they also corrupt.
Jeremiah 28:15 - So prophet Jeremiah told prophet Hananiah, “Hold it, Hananiah! God never sent you. You’ve talked the whole country into believing a pack of lies! And so God says, ‘You claim to be sent? I’ll send you all right—right off the face of the earth! Before the year is out, you’ll be dead because you instigated sedition against God.’”
Luke 20:45 - With everybody listening, Jesus spoke to his disciples. “Watch out for the religion scholars. They love to walk around in academic gowns, preen in the radiance of public flattery, bask in prominent positions, sit at the head table at every church function. And all the time they are exploiting the weak and helpless. The longer their prayers, the worse they get. But they’ll pay for it in the end.”
Jeremiah 29:20 - “And you—you exiles whom I sent out of Jerusalem to Babylon—listen to God’s Message to you. As far as Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah are concerned, the ‘Babylonian specialists’ who are preaching lies in my name, I will turn them over to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will kill them while you watch. The exiles from Judah will take what they see at the execution and use it as a curse: ‘God fry you to a crisp like the king of Babylon fried Zedekiah and Ahab in the fire!’ Those two men, sex predators and prophet-impostors, got what they deserved. They pulled every woman they got their hands on into bed—their neighbors’ wives, no less—and preached lies claiming it was my Message. I never sent those men. I’ve never had anything to do with them.” God’s Decree. “They won’t get away with a thing. I’ve witnessed it all.”
Mark 7:9 - He went on, “Well, good for you. You get rid of God’s command so you won’t be inconvenienced in following the religious fashions! Moses said, ‘Respect your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone denouncing father or mother should be killed.’ But you weasel out of that by saying that it’s perfectly acceptable to say to father or mother, ‘Gift! What I owed you I’ve given as a gift to God,’ thus relieving yourselves of obligation to father or mother. You scratch out God’s Word and scrawl a whim in its place. You do a lot of things like this.”
Mark 7:14 - Jesus called the crowd together again and said, “Listen now, all of you—take this to heart. It’s not what you swallow that pollutes your life; it’s what you vomit—that’s the real pollution.”
Matthew 19:17 - Jesus said, “Why do you question me about what’s good? God is the One who is good. If you want to enter the life of God, just do what he tells you.”
Matthew 19:18 - The man asked, “What in particular?” Jesus said, “Don’t murder, don’t commit adultery, don’t steal, don’t lie, honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as you do yourself.”
Romans 7:7 - But I can hear you say, “If the law code was as bad as all that, it’s no better than sin itself.” That’s certainly not true. The law code had a perfectly legitimate function. Without its clear guidelines for right and wrong, moral behavior would be mostly guesswork. Apart from the succinct, surgical command, “You shall not covet,” I could have dressed covetousness up to look like a virtue and ruined my life with it.
Romans 7:8 - Don’t you remember how it was? I do, perfectly well. The law code started out as an excellent piece of work. What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the command into a temptation, making a piece of “forbidden fruit” out of it. The law code, instead of being used to guide me, was used to seduce me. Without all the paraphernalia of the law code, sin looked pretty dull and lifeless, and I went along without paying much attention to it. But once sin got its hands on the law code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled, and fell for it. The very command that was supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trip me up, throwing me headlong. So sin was plenty alive, and I was stone dead. But the law code itself is God’s good and common sense, each command sane and holy counsel.
Matthew 5:21 - “You’re familiar with the command to the ancients, ‘Do not murder.’ I’m telling you that anyone who is so much as angry with a brother or sister is guilty of murder. Carelessly call a brother ‘idiot!’ and you just might find yourself hauled into court. Thoughtlessly yell ‘stupid!’ at a sister and you are on the brink of hellfire. The simple moral fact is that words kill.
Matthew 5:33 - “And don’t say anything you don’t mean. This counsel is embedded deep in our traditions. You only make things worse when you lay down a smoke screen of pious talk, saying, ‘I’ll pray for you,’ and never doing it, or saying, ‘God be with you,’ and not meaning it. You don’t make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true. Just say ‘yes’ and ‘no.’ When you manipulate words to get your own way, you go wrong.
1 Kings 22:28 - Micaiah said, “If you ever get back in one piece, I’m no prophet of God.” He added, “When it happens, O people, remember where you heard it!”
Galatians 2:6 - As for those who were considered important in the church, their reputation doesn’t concern me. God isn’t impressed with mere appearances, and neither am I. And of course these leaders were able to add nothing to the message I had been preaching. It was soon evident that God had entrusted me with the same message to the non-Jews as Peter had been preaching to the Jews. Recognizing that my calling had been given by God, James, Peter, and John—the pillars of the church—shook hands with me and Barnabas, assigning us to a ministry to the non-Jews, while they continued to be responsible for reaching out to the Jews. The only additional thing they asked was that we remember the poor, and I was already eager to do that.