Bible Cross References
Lord
Matthew 7:21
"Not everyone who calls me 'Lord, Lord' will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only those who do what my Father in heaven wants them to do.
Luke 6:46
"Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and yet don't do what I tell you?
I knew
Matthew 20:12
'These men who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'while we put up with a whole day's work in the hot sun---yet you paid them the same as you paid us!'
Job 21:14
The wicked tell God to leave them alone; they don't want to know his will for their lives.
Job 21:15
They think there is no need to serve God nor any advantage in praying to him.
Isaiah 58:3
The people ask, "Why should we fast if the LORD never notices? Why should we go without food if he pays no attention?" The LORD says to them, "The truth is that at the same time you fast, you pursue your own interests and oppress your workers.
Jeremiah 2:31
People of Israel, listen to what I am saying. Have I been like a desert to you, like a dark and dangerous land? Why, then, do you say that you will do as you please, that you will never come back to me?
Jeremiah 44:16-18
16
"We refuse to listen to what you have told us in the name of the LORD.
17
We will do everything that we said we would. We will offer sacrifices to our goddess, the Queen of Heaven, and we will pour out wine offerings to her, just as we and our ancestors, our king and our leaders, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. Then we had plenty of food, we were prosperous, and had no troubles.
18
But ever since we stopped sacrificing to the Queen of Heaven and stopped pouring out wine offerings to her, we have had nothing, and our people have died in war and of starvation."
Ezekiel 18:25-29
25
"But you say, 'What the Lord does isn't right.' Listen to me, you Israelites. Do you think my way of doing things isn't right? It is your way that isn't right.
26
When a righteous person stops doing good and starts doing evil and then dies, he dies because of the evil he has done.
27
When someone evil stops sinning and does what is right and good, he saves his life.
28
He realizes what he is doing and stops sinning, so he will certainly not die, but go on living.
29
And you Israelites say, 'What the Lord does isn't right.' You think my way isn't right, do you? It is your way that isn't right.
Malachi 1:12
But you dishonor me when you say that my altar is worthless and when you offer on it food that you despise.
Malachi 1:13
You say, 'How tired we are of all this!' and you turn up your nose at me. As your offering to me you bring a stolen animal or one that is lame or sick. Do you think I will accept that from you?
Malachi 3:14
You have said, 'It's useless to serve God. What's the use of doing what he says or of trying to show the LORD Almighty that we are sorry for what we have done?
Malachi 3:15
As we see it, proud people are the ones who are happy. Evil people not only prosper, but they test God's patience with their evil deeds and get away with it.' "
Luke 15:29
But he spoke back to his father, 'Look, all these years I have worked for you like a slave, and I have never disobeyed your orders. What have you given me? Not even a goat for me to have a feast with my friends!
Luke 19:20-22
20
Another servant came and said, 'Sir, here is your gold coin; I kept it hidden in a handkerchief.
21
I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take what is not yours and reap what you did not plant.'
22
He said to him, 'You bad servant! I will use your own words to condemn you! You know that I am a hard man, taking what is not mine and reaping what I have not planted.
Romans 8:7
And so people become enemies of God when they are controlled by their human nature; for they do not obey God's law, and in fact they cannot obey it.
Romans 9:20
But who are you, my friend, to talk back to God? A clay pot does not ask the man who made it, "Why did you make me like this?"