Bible Verses About Word of God: Unbelief in

To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

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

For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

He who despises instruction will pay the penalty, but the one who respects a command will be rewarded.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?

For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”

Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people

to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.

Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.

Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORD’s instruction.

They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.

Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.

The 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?

Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

“Do not preach,” they preach. “Do not preach these things; disgrace will not overtake us.”

Then Abraham said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead.’”

Then Jesus said to them, “O foolish ones, how slow are your hearts to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.