Psalms 50:17

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“For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.”

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BSBPD

“For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Seeing that thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 50:17 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 26:15and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,
  2. 1 Kings 14:9You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
  3. Nehemiah 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
  4. Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
  5. Proverbs 1:28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
  6. Proverbs 1:29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
  7. Proverbs 5:12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
  8. Proverbs 8:36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
  9. Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
  10. Proverbs 15:10Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.
  11. Isaiah 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
  12. Jeremiah 8:9The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?
  13. Jeremiah 18:12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
  14. Jeremiah 36:23And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
  15. John 3:20Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
  16. Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
  17. Romans 2:21you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
  18. 2 Thessalonians 2:10and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
  19. 2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.

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