Ezekiel 13:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and say: Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew bands on all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every height, in the hunt for lives! Will you hunt down lives among my people and maintain your own lives?

Cross References

Proverbs 6:26

for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.

Jeremiah 4:10

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God, how utterly you have deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘It shall be well with you,’ even while the sword is at the throat!”

Jeremiah 6:14

They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.

Ezekiel 13:10

Because, in truth, because they have misled my people, saying, “Peace,” when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a flimsy wall, these prophets smear whitewash on it.

Ezekiel 13:16

the prophets of Israel who prophesied concerning Jerusalem and saw visions of peace for it when there was no peace, says the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 13:20

Therefore thus says the Lord God: I am against your bands with which you hunt lives; I will tear them from your arms and let the lives go free, the lives that you hunt down like birds.

Ezekiel 13:21

I will tear off your veils and save my people from your hands; they shall no longer be prey in your hands, and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:25

Its princes within it are like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows within it.

Ephesians 4:14

We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming;

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound teaching, but, having their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!