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Luke 7:31-32
“ To what then should I compare the people of this generation? What are they like?They are like children who sit in the marketplace, and call to one another, saying,‘ We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’
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Isaiah 65:2-5
I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;who sit among the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;who say,‘ Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.
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Deuteronomy 31:17-18
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day,‘ Haven’t these evils come on us because our God is not among us?’I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they have done, in that they have turned to other gods.
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Deuteronomy 32:5
They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.
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Deuteronomy 31:29
For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”
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Isaiah 30:9
For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear Yahweh’s law;
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Job 13:24
Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?
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Mark 9:19
He answered him,“ Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”
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Jeremiah 18:17
I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy. I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
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Isaiah 64:7
There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
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Matthew 17:17
Jesus answered,“ Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
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Matthew 11:16-17
“ But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companionsand say,‘ We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’
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2 Chronicles 20 20
They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said,“ Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”
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Hosea 9:12
Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
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Isaiah 7:9
The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”
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Job 34:29
When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,
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Luke 18:8
I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
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Hebrews 11:6
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
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2 Thessalonians 3 2
and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and evil men; for not all have faith.