Verse 2

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

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  • Ps 49:18 : 18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise you, when you do well to yourself.
  • Deut 29:19 : 19 And it comes to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of my heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
  • Ps 10:3 : 3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the greedy, whom the LORD abhors.
  • 1 Sam 15:18-24 : 18 And the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed. 19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD, but flew upon the spoil, and did evil in the sight of the LORD? 20 And Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal. 22 And Samuel said, Does the LORD have as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has also rejected you from being king. 24 And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and your words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
  • 1 Chr 10:13-14 : 13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he did not keep; and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it; 14 And he did not inquire of the LORD. Therefore He killed him and turned the kingdom to David the son of Jesse.
  • Jer 2:23 : 23 How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
  • Jer 2:34-35 : 34 Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these. 35 Yet you say, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with you, because you say, I have not sinned.
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • Hos 12:7-8 : 7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress. 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself; in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin.
  • Luke 10:29 : 29 But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?
  • Luke 16:14-15 : 14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they ridiculed him. 15 And he said to them, You are the ones who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for what is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
  • Rom 3:9 : 9 What then? Are we better than they? Not at all: for we have already charged both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
  • Rom 7:9 : 9 For I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.
  • Rom 10:3 : 3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.