Bible Verses About Word of God: Unbelief in

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee--to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

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

Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

Whoso is despising the Word is destroyed for it, And whoso is fearing the Command is repayed.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.

By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts,

For rule is on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,

For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.

Unto whom He hath said, `This is the rest, give ye rest to the weary, And this--the refreshing:' And they have not been willing to hear,

And to whom a word of Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, So that they go and have stumbled backward, And been broken, and snared, and captured.

Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah, ye men of scorning, Ruling this people that is in Jerusalem.

That a rebellious people is this, sons--liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.

Who have said to seers, `Ye do not see,' And to prophets, `Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'

Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed?

To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear is uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.

Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what--have they?

I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

And ye cause the Nazarites to drink wine, And on the prophets ye have laid a charge, Saying, `Do not prophecy!'

Ye do not prophesy--they do prophesy, They do not prophesy to these, It doth not remove shame.

And he said to him, If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if one may rise out of the dead will they be persuaded.'

And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!

for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me;