Isaiah 65:5

New English Translation

They say, ‘Keep to yourself! Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’ These people are like smoke in my nostrils, like a fire that keeps burning all day long.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:26

Like vinegar to the teeth and like smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

Proverbs 16:5

The Lord abhors every arrogant person; rest assured that they will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 30:12

There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not washed from their filthiness.

Matthew 9:11

When the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 15:2

But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

Luke 5:30

But the Pharisees and their experts in the law complained to his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Luke 7:39

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”

Deuteronomy 29:20

The Lord will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the Lord will obliterate his name from memory.

James 4:6

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

Jude 1:19

These people are divisive, worldly, devoid of the Spirit.