Father, forgive them,
for they do not know what they are doing.
–Luke 23:34 (NIV)–
Forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
–Matthew 6:12 (NIV)–
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers.
For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common?
Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
–2 Corinthians 6:14 (NIV)–
Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world
becomes an enemy of God.
–James 4:4 (NIV)–
Do not suppose that I have come
to bring peace to the earth.
I did not come to bring peace,
but a sword.
For I have come to turn
‘a man against his father,
a daughter against her mother,
a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law—
a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’
–Matthew 10:34-36 (NIV)–
You stiff-necked people!
Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised.
You are just like your ancestors:
You always resist the Holy Spirit!
–Acts 7:51 (NIV)–
I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not what it was before, but the God of my father has been with me…‘I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.’
–Genesis 31:5, 13 (NIV)–
You hypocrites!
Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.’
–Matthew 15:7-8 (NIV)–
—
Charles Spurgeon, “The Bitterness of the Cross.”
