Sin: Repugnant to Righteous People

…and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.” …

And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.

Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked.

Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.

A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know nothing of evil.

No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.

I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore I hate every false way.

The double-minded I despise, but Your law I love.

Therefore I admire all Your precepts and hate every false way.

I hate and abhor falsehood, but Your law I love.

Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips and a deceitful tongue.

O God, that You would slay the wicked—away from me, you bloodthirsty men— …

He who answers a matter before he hears it—this is folly and disgrace to him.

An unjust man is detestable to the righteous, and one whose way is upright is detestable to the wicked.

If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do.

For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do.

But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

…and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless

…(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)—

…save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.