Sin: Love of

…how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

Though evil is sweet in his mouth and he conceals it under his tongue,

…though he cannot bear to let it go and keeps it in his mouth,

…from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

The fool delights in shameful conduct, but a man of understanding has wisdom.

He who winks his eye devises perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”

…because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.

They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so they became as detestable as the thing they loved.

Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.

…in whom He also went and preached to the spirits in prison

…who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.

Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”