the princes
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_19 82:1-8
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[A psalm of Asaph.] God has taken His place in the divine assembly; He judges among the gods:
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"How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
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Provide justice for the needy and the fatherless; uphold the rights of the oppressed and the destitute.
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Rescue the poor and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked."
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They do not know or understand; they wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
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I said, "You are gods; you are all sons of the Most High.
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However, you will die like men and fall like any other ruler."
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Rise up, God, judge the earth, for all the nations belong to You.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_44 19:34
But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a united cry went up from all of them for about two hours: "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!"
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_44 19:35
However, when the city clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said, "Men of Ephesus! What man is there who doesn't know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_45 1:21-28
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For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened.
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Claiming to be wise, they became fools
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and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.
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Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.
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They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
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This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual intercourse for what is unnatural.
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The males in the same way also left natural sexual intercourse with females and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty for their perversion.
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And because they did not think it worthwhile to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_45 3:11
there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_46 1:24-26
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Yet to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is God's power and God's wisdom,
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because God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.
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Brothers, consider your calling: not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_66 13:13-16
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He also performs great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth before people.
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He deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that he is permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image of the beast who had the sword wound yet lived.
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He was permitted to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could both speak and cause whoever would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
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And he requires everyone-- small and great, rich and poor, free and slave-- to be given a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_66 17:13
These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_66 17:17
For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His plan by having one purpose, and to give their kingdom to the beast until God's words are accomplished.
