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{"content":[{"abbv":"wsc","answer":"The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh himself known.","citation":"WSC 55","long_citation":"Shorter Catechism 55","name":"Shorter Catechism","number":"55","prooftexts":{},"question":"What is forbidden in the third commandment?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"},{"abbv":"wlc","answer":"The sins forbidden in the third commandment are, the not using of God's name as is required; and the abuse of it in an ignorant, vain, irreverent, profane, superstitious, or wicked mentioning or otherwise using his titles, attributes, ordinances, or works, by blasphemy, perjury; all sinful cursings, oaths, vows, and lots; violating of our oaths and vows, if lawful, and fulfilling them, if of things unlawful; murmuring and quarreling at, curious prying into, and misapplying of God's decrees and providences; misinterpreting, misapplying, or anyway perverting the Word, or any part of it, to profane jests, curious or unprofitable questions, vain janglings, or the maintaining of false doctrines; abusing it, the creatures, or anything contained under the name of God, to charms, or sinful lusts and practices; the maligning, scorning, reviling, or anywise opposing of God's truth, grace, and ways; making profession of religion in hypocrisy, or for sinister ends; being ashamed of it, or a shame to it, by unconformable, unwise, unfruitful, and offensive walking, or backsliding from it.","citation":"WLC 113","long_citation":"Larger Catechism 113","name":"Larger Catechism","number":"113","prooftexts":{},"question":"What are the sins forbidden in the third commandment?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"}],"content_with_prooftexts":[{"abbv":"wsc","answer":"The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh himself known.<sup id='fnref:wsc1'><a href='#fn:wsc1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup>","citation":"WSC 55","long_citation":"Shorter Catechism 55","name":"Shorter Catechism","number":"55","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Leviticus 19:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03019012.01-1\">You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:33-37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005033.02-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,</span> <span class=\"woc\">or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.</span></p>\n</div><h5>James 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p59005012.01-3\">But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"},"question":"What is forbidden in the third commandment?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"},{"abbv":"wlc","answer":"The sins forbidden in the third commandment are, the not using of God's name as is required;<sup id='fnref:wlc1'><a href='#fn:wlc1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup> and the abuse of it in an ignorant,<sup id='fnref:wlc2'><a href='#fn:wlc2' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>2</a></sup> vain,<sup id='fnref:wlc3'><a href='#fn:wlc3' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>3</a></sup> irreverent, profane,<sup id='fnref:wlc4'><a href='#fn:wlc4' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>4</a></sup> superstitious,<sup id='fnref:wlc5'><a href='#fn:wlc5' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>5</a></sup> or wicked mentioning or otherwise using his titles, attributes,<sup id='fnref:wlc6'><a href='#fn:wlc6' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>6</a></sup> ordinances,<sup id='fnref:wlc7'><a href='#fn:wlc7' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>7</a></sup> or works,<sup id='fnref:wlc8'><a href='#fn:wlc8' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>8</a></sup> by blasphemy,<sup id='fnref:wlc9'><a href='#fn:wlc9' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>9</a></sup> perjury;<sup id='fnref:wlc10'><a href='#fn:wlc10' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>10</a></sup> all sinful cursings,<sup id='fnref:wlc11'><a href='#fn:wlc11' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>11</a></sup> oaths,<sup id='fnref:wlc12'><a href='#fn:wlc12' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>12</a></sup> vows,<sup id='fnref:wlc13'><a href='#fn:wlc13' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>13</a></sup> and lots;<sup id='fnref:wlc14'><a href='#fn:wlc14' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>14</a></sup> violating of our oaths and vows, if lawful,<sup id='fnref:wlc15'><a href='#fn:wlc15' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>15</a></sup> and fulfilling them, if of things unlawful;<sup id='fnref:wlc16'><a href='#fn:wlc16' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>16</a></sup> murmuring and quarreling at,<sup id='fnref:wlc17'><a href='#fn:wlc17' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>17</a></sup> curious prying into,<sup id='fnref:wlc18'><a href='#fn:wlc18' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>18</a></sup> and misapplying of God's decrees<sup id='fnref:wlc19'><a href='#fn:wlc19' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>19</a></sup> and providences;<sup id='fnref:wlc20'><a href='#fn:wlc20' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>20</a></sup> misinterpreting,<sup id='fnref:wlc21'><a href='#fn:wlc21' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>21</a></sup> misapplying,<sup id='fnref:wlc22'><a href='#fn:wlc22' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>22</a></sup> or anyway perverting the Word, or any part of it,<sup id='fnref:wlc23'><a href='#fn:wlc23' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>23</a></sup> to profane jests,<sup id='fnref:wlc24'><a href='#fn:wlc24' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>24</a></sup> curious or unprofitable questions, vain janglings, or the maintaining of false doctrines;<sup id='fnref:wlc25'><a href='#fn:wlc25' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>25</a></sup> abusing it, the creatures, or anything contained under the name of God, to charms,<sup id='fnref:wlc26'><a href='#fn:wlc26' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>26</a></sup> or sinful lusts and practices;<sup id='fnref:wlc27'><a href='#fn:wlc27' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>27</a></sup> the maligning,<sup id='fnref:wlc28'><a href='#fn:wlc28' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>28</a></sup> scorning,<sup id='fnref:wlc29'><a href='#fn:wlc29' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>29</a></sup> reviling,<sup id='fnref:wlc30'><a href='#fn:wlc30' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>30</a></sup> or anywise opposing of God's truth, grace, and ways;<sup id='fnref:wlc31'><a href='#fn:wlc31' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>31</a></sup> making profession of religion in hypocrisy, or for sinister ends;<sup id='fnref:wlc32'><a href='#fn:wlc32' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>32</a></sup> being ashamed of it,<sup id='fnref:wlc33'><a href='#fn:wlc33' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>33</a></sup> or a shame to it, by unconformable,<sup id='fnref:wlc34'><a href='#fn:wlc34' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>34</a></sup> unwise,<sup id='fnref:wlc35'><a href='#fn:wlc35' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>35</a></sup> unfruitful,<sup id='fnref:wlc36'><a href='#fn:wlc36' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>36</a></sup> and offensive walking,<sup id='fnref:wlc37'><a href='#fn:wlc37' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>37</a></sup> or backsliding from it.<sup id='fnref:wlc38'><a href='#fn:wlc38' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>38</a></sup>","citation":"WLC 113","long_citation":"Larger Catechism 113","name":"Larger Catechism","number":"113","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39002002.01-1\">If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","2":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 17:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44017023.01-1\">For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","3":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Proverbs 30:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20030009.01-1\">lest I be full and deny you<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and say, “Who is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>?”<br />\nor lest I be poor and steal<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and profane the name of my God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","4":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Malachi 1:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p39001006.05-1\">“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ By saying that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s table may be despised.</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39001012.01-2\">But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.</p>\n</div><h5>Malachi 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p39003014.01-3\">You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","5":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 4:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09004003.01-1\">And when the troops came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> here from Shiloh, that it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.” So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.</p>\n <p id=\"p09004005.01-1\">As soon as the ark of the covenant of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 7:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24007004.01-2\">Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the temple of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the temple of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.’</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 7:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24007009.01-3\">Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 7:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24007014.01-4\">therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 7:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24007031.01-5\">And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.</p>\n</div><h5>Colossians 2:20-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p51002020.01-6\">If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","6":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Kings 18:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12018030.01-1\">Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> by saying, The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’</p>\n</div><h5>2 Kings 18:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p12018035.01-2\">Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 5:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02005002.01-3\">But Pharaoh said, “Who is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 139:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19139020.01-4\">They speak against you with malicious intent;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your enemies take your name in vain! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","7":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 50:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050016.01-1\">But to the wicked God says:<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>“What right have you to recite my statutes<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or take my covenant on your lips?<br />\n For you hate discipline,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you cast my words behind you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","8":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23005012.01-1\">They have lyre and harp,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,<br />\nbut they do not regard the deeds of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or see the work of his hands. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","9":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Kings 19:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p12019022.01-1\">“Whom have you mocked and reviled?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Against whom have you raised your voice<br />\nand lifted your eyes to the heights?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Against the Holy One of Israel!</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 24:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p03024011.01-2\">and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. Then they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","10":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Zechariah 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p38005004.01-1\">I will send it out, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”</p>\n</div><h5>Zechariah 8:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p38008017.01-2\">do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","11":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Samuel 17:43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09017043.01-1\">And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.</p>\n</div><h5>2 Samuel 16:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p10016005.04-2\">When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","12":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Jeremiah 5:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24005007.01-1\">“How can I pardon you?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Your children have forsaken me<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have sworn by those who are no gods.<br />\nWhen I fed them to the full,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they committed adultery<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and trooped to the houses of whores.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 23:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24023010.01-2\">For the land is full of adulterers;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because of the curse the land mourns,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.<br />\nTheir course is evil,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and their might is not right. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","13":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 23:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05023018.01-1\">You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 23:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44023012.06-2\">When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 23:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44023014.01-3\">They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","14":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Esther 3:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p17003007.01-1\">In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.</p>\n</div><h5>Esther 9:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p17009024.01-2\">For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 22:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19022018.01-3\">they divide my garments among them,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and for my clothing they cast lots. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","15":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 24:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19024004.01-1\">He who has clean hands and a pure heart,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who does not lift up his soul to what is false<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does not swear deceitfully.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 17:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26017016.01-2\">“As I live, declares the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die.</p>\n</div><h5>Ezekiel 17:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26017018.01-3\">He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape. Therefore thus says the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>: As I live, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","16":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 6:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41006026.01-1\">And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 25:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09025022.01-2\">God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.”</p>\n</div><h5>1 Samuel 25:32-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p09025032.01-3\">And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from avenging myself with my own hand! For as surely as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","17":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 9:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009014.01-1\">What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 9:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45009019.01-2\">You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","18":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 29:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05029029.01-1\">“The secret things belong to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","19":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45003005.01-1\">But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 3:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45003007.01-2\">But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 6:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p45006001.07-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45006001-3\">6:1 </span>What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","20":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ecclesiastes 8:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21008011.01-1\">Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.</p>\n</div><h5>Ecclesiastes 9:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p21009003.01-2\">This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19039001.17-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19039001-3\">39:1 </span>I said, “I will guard my ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may not sin with my tongue;<br />\nI will guard my mouth with a muzzle,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so long as the wicked are in my presence.”<br />\n I was mute and silent;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I held my peace to no avail,<br />\nand my distress grew worse.<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>My heart became hot within me.<br />\nAs I mused, the fire burned;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>then I spoke with my tongue:</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19039004.01-3\">“O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, make me know my end<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and what is the measure of my days;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me know how fleeting I am!<br />\n Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my lifetime is as nothing before you.<br />\nSurely all mankind stands as a mere breath! <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span><br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>Surely a man goes about as a shadow!<br />\nSurely for nothing they are in turmoil;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19039007.01-3\">“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>My hope is in you.<br />\n Deliver me from all my transgressions.<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Do not make me the scorn of the fool!<br />\n I am mute; I do not open my mouth,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for it is you who have done it.<br />\n Remove your stroke from me;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am spent by the hostility of your hand.<br />\n When you discipline a man<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>with rebukes for sin,<br />\nyou consume like a moth what is dear to him;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>surely all mankind is a mere breath! <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19039012.01-3\">“Hear my prayer, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and give ear to my cry;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>hold not your peace at my tears!<br />\nFor I am a sojourner with you,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a guest, like all my fathers.<br />\n Look away from me, that I may smile again,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>before I depart and am no more!” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","21":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 5:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005021.02-1\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005027.02-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:31-35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005031.02-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40005033.02-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,</span> <span class=\"woc\">or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:38-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005038.02-4\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 5:43-44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40005043.04-5\"><span class=\"woc\">“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","22":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ezekiel 13:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p26013022.01-1\">Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to save his life, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","23":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Peter 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61003016.01-1\">as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 22:24-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40022024.01-2\">saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.’ Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother. So too the second and third, down to the seventh. After them all, the woman died. In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.”</p>\n <p id=\"p40022029.01-2\">But Jesus answered them, <span class=\"woc\">“You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God:</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","24":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 22:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23022013.01-1\">and behold, joy and gladness,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>eating flesh and drinking wine.<br />\n“Let us eat and drink,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for tomorrow we die.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 23:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24023034.01-2\">And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, ‘The burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,’ I will punish that man and his household.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 23:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24023036.01-3\">But ‘the burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>’ you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, our God.</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 23:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24023038.01-4\">But if you say, ‘The burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,’ thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, ‘Because you have said these words, “The burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,” when I sent to you, saying, “You shall not say, ‘The burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,’” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","25":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Timothy 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001004.01-1\">nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 1:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54001006.01-2\">Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006004.01-3\">he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Timothy 6:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p54006020.01-4\">O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”</p>\n</div><h5>2 Timothy 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p55002014.06-5\">Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.</p>\n</div><h5>Titus 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p56003009.01-6\">But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","26":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Deuteronomy 18:10-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p05018010.01-1\">There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. And because of these abominations the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has not allowed you to do this.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 19:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44019013.01-2\">Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","27":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 4:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55004003.01-1\">For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Kings 21:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p11021009.01-2\">And she wrote in the letters, “Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people. And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, ‘You have cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”</p>\n</div><h5>Jude 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p65001004.01-3\">For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div><h5>Romans 13:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45013013.01-4\">Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","28":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 13:45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013045.01-1\">But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.</p>\n</div><h5>1 John 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p62003012.01-2\">We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","29":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 1:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19001001.11-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19001001-1\">1:1 </span>Blessed is the man<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,<br />\nnor stands in the way of sinners,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor sits in the seat of scoffers;</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61003003.01-2\">knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","30":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>1 Peter 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p60004004.01-1\">With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","31":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Acts 13:45-46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013045.01-1\">But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him. And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 13:50</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44013050.01-2\">But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 4:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44004018.01-3\">So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Thessalonians 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p52002016.01-4\">by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 10:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58010029.01-5\">How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 19:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p44019009.01-6\">But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","32":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>2 Timothy 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p55003005.01-1\">having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.</p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 23:13-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p40023013.01-2\"><span class=\"woc\">“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40006001.05-3\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40006001-3\">6:1 </span><span class=\"woc\">“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.</span></p>\n <p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p40006002.01-3\"><span class=\"woc\">“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40006005.04-4\"><span class=\"woc\">“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.</span></p>\n</div><h5>Matthew 6:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40006016.02-5\"><span class=\"woc\">“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","33":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Mark 8:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p41008038.01-1\"><span class=\"woc\">For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","34":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Psalm 73:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073014.01-1\">For all the day long I have been stricken<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and rebuked every morning.<br />\n If I had said, “I will speak thus,”<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I would have betrayed the generation of your children. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","35":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Ephesians 5:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p49005015.01-1\">Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 6:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p46006005.01-2\">I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","36":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23005004.01-1\">What more was there to do for my vineyard,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I have not done in it?<br />\nWhen I looked for it to yield grapes,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>why did it yield wild grapes?</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>2 Peter 1:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p61001008.01-2\">For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","37":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Romans 2:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p45002023.01-1\">You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","38":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Galatians 3:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p48003001.09-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v48003001-1\">3:1 </span>O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.</p>\n</div><h5>Galatians 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p48003003.01-2\">Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?</p>\n</div><h5>Hebrews 6:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p58006006.01-3\">and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"},"question":"What are the sins forbidden in the third commandment?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"}],"feed":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title></title>\n\n</head>\n<body>\n<h5 class=\"header mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Shorter Catechism</h5>\n<p class=\"question mb-0\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">Q <em>55.</em></span>\nWhat is forbidden in the third commandment?</p>\n<div class=\"answer\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><p style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"q\">A. </span> The third commandment forbiddeth all profaning or abusing of anything whereby God maketh himself known.<sup id=\"fnref:wsc1\"><a href=\"#fn:wsc1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup></p></div>\n\n <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n <ol class=\"disc\">\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Leviticus 19:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p03019012.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">You shall not swear by my name falsely, and so profane the name of your God: I am the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 5:33-37</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40005033.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cAgain you have heard that it was said to those of old, \u2018You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.\u2019</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,</span> <span class=\"woc\">or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Let what you say be simply \u2018Yes\u2019 or \u2018No\u2019; anything more than this comes from evil.</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">James 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p59005012.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your \u201cyes\u201d be yes and your \u201cno\u201d be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n </ol>\n </div>\n\n <h5 class=\"header mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Larger Catechism</h5>\n<p class=\"question mb-0\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">Q <em>113.</em></span>\nWhat are the sins forbidden in the third commandment?</p>\n<div class=\"answer\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><p style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"q\">A. </span> The sins forbidden in the third commandment are, the not using of God's name as is required;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc1\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup> and the abuse of it in an ignorant,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc2\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc2\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">2</a></sup> vain,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc3\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc3\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">3</a></sup> irreverent, profane,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc4\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc4\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">4</a></sup> superstitious,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc5\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc5\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">5</a></sup> or wicked mentioning or otherwise using his titles, attributes,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc6\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc6\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">6</a></sup> ordinances,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc7\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc7\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">7</a></sup> or works,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc8\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc8\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">8</a></sup> by blasphemy,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc9\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc9\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">9</a></sup> perjury;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc10\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc10\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">10</a></sup> all sinful cursings,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc11\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc11\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">11</a></sup> oaths,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc12\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc12\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">12</a></sup> vows,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc13\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc13\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">13</a></sup> and lots;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc14\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc14\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">14</a></sup> violating of our oaths and vows, if lawful,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc15\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc15\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">15</a></sup> and fulfilling them, if of things unlawful;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc16\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc16\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">16</a></sup> murmuring and quarreling at,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc17\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc17\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">17</a></sup> curious prying into,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc18\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc18\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">18</a></sup> and misapplying of God's decrees<sup id=\"fnref:wlc19\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc19\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">19</a></sup> and providences;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc20\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc20\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">20</a></sup> misinterpreting,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc21\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc21\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">21</a></sup> misapplying,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc22\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc22\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">22</a></sup> or anyway perverting the Word, or any part of it,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc23\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc23\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">23</a></sup> to profane jests,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc24\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc24\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">24</a></sup> curious or unprofitable questions, vain janglings, or the maintaining of false doctrines;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc25\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc25\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">25</a></sup> abusing it, the creatures, or anything contained under the name of God, to charms,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc26\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc26\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">26</a></sup> or sinful lusts and practices;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc27\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc27\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">27</a></sup> the maligning,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc28\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc28\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">28</a></sup> scorning,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc29\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc29\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">29</a></sup> reviling,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc30\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc30\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">30</a></sup> or anywise opposing of God's truth, grace, and ways;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc31\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc31\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">31</a></sup> making profession of religion in hypocrisy, or for sinister ends;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc32\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc32\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">32</a></sup> being ashamed of it,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc33\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc33\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">33</a></sup> or a shame to it, by unconformable,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc34\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc34\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">34</a></sup> unwise,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc35\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc35\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">35</a></sup> unfruitful,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc36\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc36\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">36</a></sup> and offensive walking,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc37\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc37\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">37</a></sup> or backsliding from it.<sup id=\"fnref:wlc38\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc38\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">38</a></sup></p></div>\n\n <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n <ol class=\"disc\">\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Malachi 2:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p39002002.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:2\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 17:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44017023.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, \u2018To the unknown god.\u2019 What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:3\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Proverbs 30:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p20030009.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">lest I be full and deny you\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and say, \u201cWho is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>?\u201d\nor lest I be poor and steal\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and profane the name of my God. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:4\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Malachi 1:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p39001006.05-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cA son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, \u2018How have we despised your name?\u2019 By offering polluted food upon my altar. But you say, \u2018How have we polluted you?\u2019 By saying that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>'s table may be despised.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Malachi 1:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p39001012.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But you profane it when you say that the Lord's table is polluted, and its fruit, that is, its food may be despised.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Malachi 3:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p39003014.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">You have said, \u2018It is vain to serve God. What is the profit of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:5\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Samuel 4:3-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p09004003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And when the troops came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, \u201cWhy has the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> here from Shiloh, that it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.\u201d So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.</p>\n <p id=\"p09004005.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">As soon as the ark of the covenant of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 7:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p24007004.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Do not trust in these deceptive words: \u2018This is the temple of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the temple of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the temple of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.\u2019</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 7:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p24007009.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, \u2018We are delivered!\u2019\u2014only to go on doing all these abominations?</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 7:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p24007014.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 7:31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p24007031.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into my mind.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Colossians 2:20-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p51002020.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations\u2014 \u201cDo not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch\u201d (referring to things that all perish as they are used)\u2014according to human precepts and teachings? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:6\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Kings 18:30</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p12018030.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> by saying, The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.\u2019</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Kings 18:35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p12018035.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?\u2019\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 5:2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02005002.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But Pharaoh said, \u201cWho is the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 139:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19139020.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">They speak against you with malicious intent;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>your enemies take your name in vain! (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:7\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 50:16-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19050016.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But to the wicked God says:\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>\u201cWhat right have you to recite my statutes\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or take my covenant on your lips?\n For you hate discipline,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and you cast my words behind you. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:8\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 5:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23005012.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">They have lyre and harp,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,\nbut they do not regard the deeds of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or see the work of his hands. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:9\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Kings 19:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p12019022.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cWhom have you mocked and reviled?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Against whom have you raised your voice\nand lifted your eyes to the heights?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Against the Holy One of Israel!</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Leviticus 24:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p03024011.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">and the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the Name, and cursed. Then they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:10\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Zechariah 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p38005004.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">I will send it out, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Zechariah 8:17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p38008017.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, declares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>.\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:11\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Samuel 17:43</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p09017043.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And the Philistine said to David, \u201cAm I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?\u201d And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Samuel 16:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p10016005.04-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">When King David came to Bahurim, there came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera, and as he came he cursed continually. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:12\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 5:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24005007.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cHow can I pardon you?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Your children have forsaken me\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and have sworn by those who are no gods.\nWhen I fed them to the full,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they committed adultery\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and trooped to the houses of whores.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 23:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p24023010.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For the land is full of adulterers;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>because of the curse the land mourns,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the pastures of the wilderness are dried up.\nTheir course is evil,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and their might is not right. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:13\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Deuteronomy 23:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p05023018.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">You shall not bring the fee of a prostitute or the wages of a dog into the house of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God in payment for any vow, for both of these are an abomination to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 23:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44023012.06-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 23:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44023014.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">They went to the chief priests and elders and said, \u201cWe have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:14\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Esther 3:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p17003007.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Esther 9:24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p17009024.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 22:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19022018.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">they divide my garments among them,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and for my clothing they cast lots. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:15\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 24:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19024004.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">He who has clean hands and a pure heart,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who does not lift up his soul to what is false\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and does not swear deceitfully.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Ezekiel 17:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p26017016.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cAs I live, declares the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>, surely in the place where the king dwells who made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant with him he broke, in Babylon he shall die.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Ezekiel 17:18-19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p26017018.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape. Therefore thus says the Lord <span class=\"small-caps\">God</span>: As I live, surely it is my oath that he despised, and my covenant that he broke. I will return it upon his head. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:16\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Mark 6:26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p41006026.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Samuel 25:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p09025022.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Samuel 25:32-34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p09025032.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And David said to Abigail, \u201cBlessed be the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me! Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from avenging myself with my own hand! For as surely as the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:17\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 9:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45009014.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 9:19-20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45009019.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">You will say to me then, \u201cWhy does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?\u201d But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, \u201cWhy have you made me like this?\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:18\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Deuteronomy 29:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p05029029.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cThe secret things belong to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:19\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"same-paragraph\" id=\"p45003005.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.)</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 3:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45003007.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 6:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45006001.07-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v45006001-3\">6:1\u00a0</span>What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:20\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Ecclesiastes 8:11</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p21008011.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Ecclesiastes 9:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p21009003.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19039001.17-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19039001-3\">39:1\u00a0</span>I said, \u201cI will guard my ways,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I may not sin with my tongue;\nI will guard my mouth with a muzzle,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>so long as the wicked are in my presence.\u201d\n I was mute and silent;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I held my peace to no avail,\nand my distress grew worse.\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>My heart became hot within me.\nAs I mused, the fire burned;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>then I spoke with my tongue:</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19039004.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cO <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, make me know my end\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and what is the measure of my days;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>let me know how fleeting I am!\n Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and my lifetime is as nothing before you.\nSurely all mankind stands as a mere breath! <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span>\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>Surely a man goes about as a shadow!\nSurely for nothing they are in turmoil;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19039007.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cAnd now, O Lord, for what do I wait?\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>My hope is in you.\n Deliver me from all my transgressions.\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Do not make me the scorn of the fool!\n I am mute; I do not open my mouth,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for it is you who have done it.\n Remove your stroke from me;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I am spent by the hostility of your hand.\n When you discipline a man\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>with rebukes for sin,\nyou consume like a moth what is dear to him;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>surely all mankind is a mere breath! <span class=\"selah\">Selah</span></p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19039012.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cHear my prayer, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and give ear to my cry;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>hold not your peace at my tears!\nFor I am a sojourner with you,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>a guest, like all my fathers.\n Look away from me, that I may smile again,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>before I depart and am no more!\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:21\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 5:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40005021.02-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cYou have heard that it was said to those of old, \u2018You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.\u2019</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, \u2018You fool!\u2019 will be liable to the hell of fire.</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 5:27-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40005027.02-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cYou have heard that it was said, \u2018You shall not commit adultery.\u2019</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 5:31-35</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40005031.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cIt was also said, \u2018Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.\u2019</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40005033.02-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cAgain you have heard that it was said to those of old, \u2018You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.\u2019</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God,</span> <span class=\"woc\">or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 5:38-39</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40005038.02-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cYou have heard that it was said, \u2018An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.\u2019</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 5:43-44</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40005043.04-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cYou have heard that it was said, \u2018You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.\u2019</span> <span class=\"woc\">But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:22\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Ezekiel 13:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p26013022.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Because you have disheartened the righteous falsely, although I have not grieved him, and you have encouraged the wicked, that he should not turn from his evil way to save his life, (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:23\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Peter 3:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p61003016.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 22:24-31</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40022024.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">saying, \u201cTeacher, Moses said, \u2018If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.\u2019 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother. So too the second and third, down to the seventh. After them all, the woman died. In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.\u201d</p>\n <p id=\"p40022029.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But Jesus answered them, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cYou are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God:</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:24\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 22:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23022013.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">and behold, joy and gladness,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>eating flesh and drinking wine.\n\u201cLet us eat and drink,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for tomorrow we die.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 23:34</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p24023034.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And as for the prophet, priest, or one of the people who says, \u2018The burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\u2019 I will punish that man and his household.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 23:36</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p24023036.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But \u2018the burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>\u2019 you shall mention no more, for the burden is every man's own word, and you pervert the words of the living God, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> of hosts, our God.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 23:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p24023038.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But if you say, \u2018The burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\u2019 thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, \u2018Because you have said these words, \u201cThe burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\u201d when I sent to you, saying, \u201cYou shall not say, \u2018The burden of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\u2019\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:25\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Timothy 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p54001004.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Timothy 1:6-7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p54001006.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Timothy 6:4-5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p54006004.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Timothy 6:20</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p54006020.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called \u201cknowledge,\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Timothy 2:14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p55002014.06-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Titus 3:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p56003009.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:26\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Deuteronomy 18:10-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p05018010.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. And because of these abominations the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God is driving them out before you. You shall be blameless before the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God, for these nations, which you are about to dispossess, listen to fortune-tellers and to diviners. But as for you, the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God has not allowed you to do this.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 19:13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44019013.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, \u201cI adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:27\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Timothy 4:3-4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p55004003.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Kings 21:9-10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p11021009.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And she wrote in the letters, \u201cProclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people. And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, \u2018You have cursed God and the king.\u2019 Then take him out and stone him to death.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jude 1:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p65001004.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 13:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45013013.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:28\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 13:45</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44013045.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 John 3:12</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p62003012.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:29\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 1:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19001001.11-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19001001-1\">1:1\u00a0</span>Blessed is the man\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,\nnor stands in the way of sinners,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>nor sits in the seat of scoffers;</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Peter 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p61003003.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:30\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Peter 4:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p60004004.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:31\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 13:45-46</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44013045.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him. And Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, \u201cIt was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you. Since you thrust it aside and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 13:50</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44013050.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But the Jews incited the devout women of high standing and the leading men of the city, stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 4:18</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44004018.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Thessalonians 2:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p52002016.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved\u2014so as always to fill up the measure of their sins. But God's wrath has come upon them at last!</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Hebrews 10:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p58010029.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 19:9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44019009.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:32\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Timothy 3:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p55003005.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 23:13-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40023013.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cBut woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.</span> <span class=\"woc\">Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 6:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40006001.05-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40006001-3\">6:1\u00a0</span><span class=\"woc\">\u201cBeware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.</span></p>\n <p class=\"chapter-first\" id=\"p40006002.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cThus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 6:5</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40006005.04-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cAnd when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.</span></p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 6:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40006016.02-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">\u201cAnd when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:33\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Mark 8:38</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p41008038.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"woc\">For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.\u201d</span> (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:34\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 73:14-15</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19073014.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For all the day long I have been stricken\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and rebuked every morning.\n If I had said, \u201cI will speak thus,\u201d\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>I would have betrayed the generation of your children. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:35\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Ephesians 5:15-17</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p49005015.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Corinthians 6:5-6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p46006005.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:36\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 5:4</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23005004.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">What more was there to do for my vineyard,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>that I have not done in it?\nWhen I looked for it to yield grapes,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>why did it yield wild grapes?</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">2 Peter 1:8-9</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p61001008.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:37\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Romans 2:23-24</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p45002023.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. For, as it is written, \u201cThe name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:38\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Galatians 3:1</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p48003001.09-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v48003001-1\">3:1\u00a0</span>O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Galatians 3:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p48003003.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Hebrews 6:6</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p58006006.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n </ol>\n </div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","title":"What are the sins forbidden in the third commandment?"}