Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Psalm 50:16-18

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." 

What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant 
Psalm 25:10  All the ways of the LORD are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of his covenant.

on your lips 
Isaiah 29:13  The LORD says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught."

You hate my instruction 
Proverbs 1:22  "How long will you who are simple love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?"

and cast my words behind you 
1 Kings 14:9  " 'You have done more evil than all who lived before you. You have made for yourself other gods, idols made of metal; you have aroused my anger and turned your back on me.' "

When you see a thief, you join with him 
Romans 1:32  Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
1 Timothy 5:22  Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, and do not share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

you throw in your lot with adulterers 
Job 22:15  "Will you keep to the old path that the wicked have trod?"
Job 34:8-9  "He keeps company with evildoers; he associates with the wicked. For he says 'There is no profit in trying to please God.' "
Psalm 1:1-2  Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night.

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