Isaiah 57:3

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““But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!”

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BSBPD

““But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And ye, come near hither, O sons of a sorceress, seed of an adulterer, Even thou dost commit whoredom.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 57:3 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
  2. Isaiah 1:21See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!
  3. Isaiah 45:20Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.
  4. Jeremiah 3:6Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
  5. Jeremiah 3:9Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
  6. Hosea 1:2When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”
  7. Hosea 2:4I will have no compassion on her children, because they are the children of adultery.
  8. Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
  9. Joel 3:9Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war; rouse the mighty men; let all the men of war advance and attack!
  10. Matthew 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  11. Matthew 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
  12. Matthew 16:4A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Then He left them and went away.
  13. Matthew 23:33You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
  14. Luke 3:7Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
  15. John 8:40But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.
  16. James 4:4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
  17. 1 John 3:10By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
  18. Revelation 17:1Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.

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