Isaiah 48:1

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Isaiah 48:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel— but not in truth or righteousness—

2 who indeed call yourselves after the holy city and lean on the God of Israel; the LORD of Hosts is His name.

3 I foretold the former things long ago; they came out of My mouth and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass.

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Genesis 32:28

Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

Genesis 35:10

And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.

2 Kings 17:34

To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

John 1:47

When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, He said of him, “Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.”

Romans 2:17

Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

Romans 2:28

A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.

Romans 2:29

No, a man is a Jew because he is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a man’s praise does not come from men, but from God.

Romans 9:6

It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

Romans 9:8

So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.

Revelation 2:9

I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.

Revelation 3:9

Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead. I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you.

Numbers 24:7

Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.

Deuteronomy 33:28

So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.

Psalms 68:26

Bless God in the great congregation; bless the LORD from the fountain of Israel.

Proverbs 5:16

Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

Isaiah 44:5

One will say, ‘I belong to the LORD,’ another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and still another will write on his hand, ‘The LORD’s,’ and will take the name of Israel.”

Isaiah 45:23

By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.

Isaiah 65:16

Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My sight.

Deuteronomy 5:28

And the LORD heard the words you spoke to me, and He said to me, “I have heard the words that these people have spoken to you. They have done well in all that they have spoken.

Deuteronomy 6:13

Fear the LORD your God, serve Him only, and take your oaths in His name.

Deuteronomy 10:20

You are to fear the LORD your God and serve Him. Hold fast to Him and take your oaths in His name.

Psalms 63:11

But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by Him will exult, for the mouths of liars will be shut.

Zephaniah 1:5

those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,

Isaiah 26:13

O LORD our God, other lords besides You have had dominion, but Your name alone do we confess.

Isaiah 62:8

The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.

Exodus 23:13

Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.

Isaiah 1:10

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

Isaiah 1:11

“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.

Isaiah 1:12

When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you— this trampling of My courts?

Isaiah 1:13

Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me— your New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations. I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.

Isaiah 1:14

I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

Leviticus 19:12

You must not swear falsely by My name and so profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

Psalms 50:16

To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

Psalms 50:17

For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

Psalms 50:18

When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

Psalms 50:19

You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit.

Psalms 50:20

You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

Psalms 66:3

Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.

Jeremiah 4:2

and if you can swear, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then the nations will be blessed by Him, and in Him they will glory.”

Jeremiah 5:2

Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”

Jeremiah 7:9

Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

Jeremiah 7:10

and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Matthew 15:8

‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

Matthew 15:9

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”

John 4:24

God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

1 Timothy 4:2

influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

2 Timothy 3:2

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

2 Timothy 3:3

unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,

2 Timothy 3:4

traitorous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

2 Timothy 3:5

having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!