Ignoring God

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”

Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’ …

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices, …

You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.

Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.

He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.