Zephaniah 3:2

New American Bible - revised edition

It listens to no voice, accepts no correction; In the Lord it has not trusted, nor drawn near to its God.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were contemptuous and rebelled against you: they cast your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who bore witness against them to bring them back to you: they were guilty of great insults.

Psalm 10:4

In their insolence the wicked boast: “God does not care; there is no God.”

Psalm 50:17

You hate discipline; you cast my words behind you!

Psalm 73:28

As for me, to be near God is my good, to make the Lord God my refuge. I shall declare all your works in the gates of daughter Zion.

Psalm 78:22

For they did not believe in God, did not trust in his saving power.

Proverbs 1:7

Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Proverbs 5:12

And you say, “Oh, why did I hate instruction, and my heart spurn reproof!

Isaiah 1:5

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Since this people draws near with words only and honors me with their lips alone, though their hearts are far from me, And fear of me has become mere precept of human teaching,

Isaiah 31:1

Ah! Those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses; Who put their trust in chariots because of their number, and in horsemen because of their combined power, But look not to the Holy One of Israel nor seek the Lord!

Isaiah 43:22

Yet you did not call upon me, Jacob, for you grew weary of me, Israel.

Isaiah 9:12

The people do not turn back to the one who struck them, nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 13:25

This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you— oracle of the Lord. Because you have forgotten me, and trusted in deception,

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I struck your children; correction they did not take. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 22:21

I spoke to you when you were secure, but you answered, “I will not listen.” This has been your way from your youth, not to listen to my voice.

Jeremiah 32:33

They turned their backs to me, not their faces; though I taught them persistently, they would not listen or accept correction.

Jeremiah 35:13

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Go, say to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Will you not take correction and obey my words?—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 35:17

Now, therefore, says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel: I will soon bring upon Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem every evil with which I threatened them because I spoke but they did not obey, I called but they did not answer.

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

Ezekiel 22:24

Son of man, say to her: You are an unclean land receiving no rain at the time of my fury.

Ezekiel 24:13

Even in defiling yourself with depravity I would still have cleansed you, but you would not have your impurity cleansed. You will not be cleansed now until I wreak my fury on you.

Zephaniah 1:6

And those who have turned away from the Lord, and those who have not sought the Lord, who have not inquired of him.

2 Timothy 3:16

All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Hebrews 10:22

let us approach with a sincere heart and in absolute trust, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.