Isaiah 57:3

Good News Translation

Come here to be judged, you sinners! You are no better than sorcerers, adulterers, and prostitutes.

Cross References

Genesis 3:15

I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel.”

Isaiah 1:21

The city that once was faithful is behaving like a whore! At one time it was filled with righteous people, but now only murderers remain.

Isaiah 1:4

You are doomed, you sinful nation, you corrupt and evil people! Your sins drag you down! You have rejected the Lord, the holy God of Israel, and have turned your backs on him.

Isaiah 45:20

The Lord says, “Come together, people of the nations, all who survive the fall of the empire; present yourselves for the trial! The people who parade with their idols of wood and pray to gods that cannot save them— those people know nothing at all!

Isaiah 48:16

“Now come close to me and hear what I say. From the beginning I have spoken openly and have always made my words come true.” (Now the Sovereign Lord has given me his power and sent me.)

Isaiah 57:7

You go to the high mountains to offer sacrifices and have sex.

Isaiah 58:2

They worship me every day, claiming that they are eager to know my ways and obey my laws. They say they want me to give them just laws and that they take pleasure in worshiping me.”

Jeremiah 3:6

When Josiah was king, the Lord said to me, “Have you seen what Israel, that unfaithful woman, has done? She has turned away from me, and on every high hill and under every green tree she has acted like a prostitute.

Jeremiah 3:9

and was not at all ashamed. She defiled the land, and she committed adultery by worshiping stones and trees.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke to Israel through Hosea, he said to Hosea, “Go and get married; your wife will be unfaithful, and your children will be just like her. In the same way my people have left me and become unfaithful.”

Hosea 2:4

I will not show mercy to her children; they are the children of a shameless prostitute. She herself said, “I will go to my lovers—they give me food and water, wool and linen, olive oil and wine.”

Hosea 2:6

So I am going to fence her in with thorn bushes and build a wall to block her way.

Malachi 3:5

The Lord Almighty says, “I will appear among you to judge, and I will testify at once against those who practice magic, against adulterers, against those who give false testimony, those who cheat employees out of their wages, and those who take advantage of widows, orphans, and foreigners—against all who do not respect me.

Matthew 12:34

You snakes—how can you say good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Matthew 16:4

How evil and godless are the people of this day! You ask me for a miracle? No! The only miracle you will be given is the miracle of Jonah.” So he left them and went away.

Matthew 23:33

You snakes and children of snakes! How do you expect to escape from being condemned to hell?

Matthew 3:7

When John saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to him to be baptized, he said to them, “You snakes—who told you that you could escape from the punishment God is about to send?

Luke 3:7

Crowds of people came out to John to be baptized by him. “You snakes!” he said to them. “Who told you that you could escape from the punishment God is about to send?

James 4:4

Unfaithful people! Don't you know that to be the world's friend means to be God's enemy? If you want to be the world's friend, you make yourself God's enemy.

1 John 3:10

Here is the clear difference between God's children and the Devil's children: those who do not do what is right or do not love others are not God's children.