Bible verses about "ungratefulness" | JuliaSmith

¹ And Moab broke with Israel after Ahab died. ² And Ahaziah will fall through the lattice in his upper chamber which was in Shomeron, and he will be sick: and he will send messengers, and say to them, Go seek in Baal the fly god of Ekron, if I shall live from this disease. ³ And the messenger of Jehovah spake to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to the meeting of the messengers of the king of Shomeron, and speak to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel ye go to seek in Baal the fly god of Ekron? ⁴ And for this, thus said Jehovah, The bed where thou wentest up there, thou shalt not come down from it, but dying, thou shalt die, and Elijah will go ⁵ And the messengers will turn back to him, and he will say to them, Why this ye turned back? ⁶ And they will say to him, A man came up to our meeting, and he will say to us, Go, turn back to the king who sent you, and speak to him, Thus said Jehovah, Is it because there is no God in Israel thou sentest to seek in Baal the fly god of Ekron? for this the bed where thou wentest up there, thou shalt not come down from it, for dying, thou shalt die. ⁷ And he will speak to them, What the judgment of the man who came up to your meeting, and he will speak to you these words? ⁸ And they will say to him, A man possessing hair, girded with a girdle of skin upon his loins. And he will say, It is Elijah the Tishbite. ⁹ And he will send to him a chief of of fifty and his fifty. And he will go Up to him; and behold, he sat upon the head of the mountain. And he will speak to him,. Thou man of God, the king spake, Come down. ¹⁰ And Elijah will answer and speak to the captain of fifty, If I a man of God, fire shall come down out of the heavens and consume thee and thy fifty. And fire will come down from the heavens and consume him and his fifty. ¹¹ And he will turn back and send to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. And he will answer and speak to him, O man of God, thus said the king, Come down quickly. ¹² And Elijah will answer and speak to them, If I a man of God, fire shall come down from the heavens and con,sume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God will come down from the heavens and consume him and his fifty. ¹³ And he will turn back and send a captain of the third fifty and his fifty. And the captain of the third fifty will go up and come and bend upon his knees before Elijah, and make supplication to him, and speak to him, O man of God, shall my soul now be precious, and the soul of these fifty, thy servants, in thine eyes? ¹⁴ Behold, fire will come down from heaven and consume the two first captains and their fifties: and now shall my soul be precious in thine eyes? ¹⁵ And the messenger of Jehovah will speak to Elijah, Go down with him: thou shalt not be afraid of his face. And he will rise and go down with him to the king. ¹⁶ And he will speak to him, Thus said Jehovah, Because thou didst send messengers to seek in Baal the fly god of Ekron, Is it because there is no God. in Israel to seek in his word? for this, the bed where thou wentest up there, thou shalt not come down from it, for dying, thou shalt die. ¹⁷ And he will die according to the word of Jehovah which Elijah spoke. And Jehoram will reign in his stead in the second year to Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; for there was no son to him. ¹⁸ And the rest of the words of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written upon the book of the words of the days to the kings of Israel?

¹ The vision of Isaiah son of Amos which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. ² Hear, ye heavens, and give ear thou earth, for Jehovah spake: for I caused to grow and lifted up sons, and they rebelled against me. ³ . The ox knew his possessor, and the ass his lord's stall: Israel knew not; my people understood not ⁴ Wo! sinful nation, a people heavy with sin, a seed doing evil, sons acting wickedly; they forsook Jehovah; they despised the holy one of Israel; they separated themselves backward. ⁵ For what shall ye be yet struck? will ye add apostasy? every head for sickness, and every heart sick ⁶ From the sole of the foot and even to the head, no wholeness in it; a wound and bruise, and a fresh blow: they were not pressed out, and they were not bound up, and they were not softened with oil. ⁷ Your land made desolate, your cities burnt with fire, your land before your strangers eating it up, and made desolate, as the overthrow of strangers. ⁸ And the daughter of Zion was left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a field of cucumbers, as a city besieged. ⁹ Unless Jehovah of armies left to us an escaping so small, we were as Sodom and we were made like to Gomorrah. ¹⁰ Hear the word of Jehovah, ye leaders of Sodom: give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. ¹¹ For what to me the multitude of your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I was filled with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fatlings; and I delighted not in the blood of bullocks, and of he lambs and of he goats. ¹² When ye shall come to be seen before me who sought this from your hand to tread my enclosure. ¹³ Ye shall not add to bring gifts of iniquity; incense, this an abomination to me; the new moon and the Sabbath, the calling of the assembly; I shall not be able to bear vanity and restraining. ¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointments my soul hated; they were for a burden upon me; I was wearied to lift up. ¹⁵ And in the spreading forth of your hands I will hide mine eyes from you.; also when ye shall multiply prayer I hear not: your hands were full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash ye, cleanse yourselves: turn away evil from your doings from before mine eyes; leave off the evil; ¹⁷ Learn to do good; seek out judgment, lead right the oppressor, judge the orphan, contend for the widow. ¹⁸ Come now we will confute together Jehovah will say: if your sins shall be as deep scarlet, they shall be white as snow; if they shall be red as crimson, they shall be as wool. ¹⁹ If ye shall be willing and hear, ye shall eat the good of the land. ²⁰ And if ye shall refuse and rebel, ye shall be eaten by the sword: for the mouth of Jehovah spake. ²¹ How was the faithful city for a harlot! I filled with judgment; justice will lodge in her; and now they are killing ²² Thy silver was for dross, thy wine adulterated with water. ²³ Thy chiefs turning away, and associates of thieves: every one loving a gift and following recompenses: the orphan they will not judge, and the cause of the widow will not come to them. ²⁴ For this says the lord Jehovah of armies, the mighty one of Israel, Wo! I will take vengeance of mine adversaries, and I will avenge myself of mine enemies: ²⁵ And I will turn back my hand upon thee, end I will straiten thy dross according to pureness, and I will remove all thine alloy: ²⁶ And I will turn back thy judges as in the beginning, and thy counsellors as in the beginning: after this he shall call to thee, The city of justice, the faithful city. ²⁷ Zion shall be ransomed with judgment and her captivity with justice. ²⁸ Breaking the transgressing and the sinning together, and they forsaking Jehovah shall be finished. ²⁹ For they shall be ashamed of their mighty ones which ye desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens which ye chose. ³⁰ For ye shall be as an oak the leaf withering, and as a garden which there no water to it. ³¹ And the strong was for tow, and his work for a spark, and they two were burnt together, and none quenching.

²¹ Wherefore having known God, not as God did they honour or return thanks; but were rendered vain in their conversations, and their heart without understanding was darkened.

⁸ As to the rest, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever venerable, whatever just, whatever pure, whatever lovely, whatever prosperous; if any ability, and if any praise, reckon up these things.

¹ I Beseech therefore, first of all, supplications to be made, prayers, entreaties, thanks, for all men; ² For kings, and all them being in eminence; that we may lead a gentle and quiet life, in all devotion and gravity. ³ For this good and acceptable before our Saviour God; ⁴ Who wills all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus; ⁶ Having given himself a ransom for all, a testimony in his own time. ⁷ For which I was placed a herald, and the sent, (I speak truth in Christ, I lie not;) a teacher of the nations in faith and truth. ⁸ I will therefore men shall pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without anger and reasoning. ⁹ And likewise the women in well-arranged simplicity, with modesty and discretion, arrange themselves; not in tresses, or gold, or pearls, or expensive clothing; ¹⁰ But (what become women professing religious worship) with good works. ¹¹ Let the woman, in freedom from care, learn in all subjection. ¹² And I trust not the woman to teach, neither to exercise authority over the man, but to be in freedom from care. ¹³ For Adam was first formed, then Eve. ¹⁴ And Adam was not deceived, but the woman, having been deceived, was in the transgression. ¹⁵ And she shall be saved through the bringing forth children, if they remain in faith and love and consecration with discretion.

² For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked,

¹⁶ For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

⁴ And the scraped together which in its midst will long a longing; and the sons of Israel also will turn back and weep, and they will say, Who will feed us with flesh? ⁵ We remembered the fish which we ate in Egypt gratuitously; the cucumbers and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlics. ⁶ And now our soul shall be dried up; not any thing but to the manna our eyes.

¹ And this know, that in the last days difficult times shall interpose. ² For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked, ³ Devoid of natural affection, not observing treaties, accusers, ungoverned, wild, not loving the good, ⁴ Traitors, rash, haughty, devoted to pleasure more than loving God; ⁵ Having a form of devotion, and having denied its power: and these renounce.