Quotes About Disobedience

Then the royal servants at the kingís gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”

For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”

But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High.

In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

On hearing it, God was furious and rejected Israel completely.

But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.

So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.”

At the waters of Meribah they angered the LORD, and trouble came to Moses because of them.

They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.

“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.

These are rebellious people, deceitful children, children unwilling to obey the LORDís instruction.

Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”

to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.

And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,

As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.

But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?