Psalm 81:12

New International Version

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.

Cross References

Genesis 6:3

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

2 Kings 18:12

This happened because they had not obeyed the Lord their God, but had violated his covenant—all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded. They neither listened to the commands nor carried them out.

Nehemiah 9:16

“But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff-necked, and they did not obey your commands.

Job 8:4

When your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

Exodus 11:9

The Lord had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you—so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt.”

Isaiah 30:1

“Woe to the obstinate children,” declares the Lord, “to those who carry out plans that are not mine, forming an alliance, but not by my Spirit, heaping sin upon sin;

Isaiah 30:9

For these are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction.

Isaiah 42:24

Who handed Jacob over to become loot, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned? For they would not follow his ways; they did not obey his law.

Jeremiah 42:21

I have told you today, but you still have not obeyed the Lord your God in all he sent me to tell you.

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubborn inclinations of their evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

Ezekiel 20:8

“ ‘But they rebelled against me and would not listen to me; they did not get rid of the vile images they had set their eyes on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them and spend my anger against them in Egypt.

Hosea 9:17

My God will reject them because they have not obeyed him; they will be wanderers among the nations.

Leviticus 26:14

“ ‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,

Acts 14:16

In the past, he let all nations go their own way.

Acts 7:42

But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars. This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets: “ ‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?

Romans 1:24

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

1 Samuel 8:19

But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us.