TOPICAL BIBLE
Excuses
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Genesis 3:12The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”Genesis 3:13Yahweh God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”Exodus 4:1Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”Exodus 4:10Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”Exodus 4:11Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?Exodus 4:12Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what you shall speak.”Exodus 4:13He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”Exodus 4:14The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.Exodus 32:22Aaron said, “Don’t let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.Exodus 32:23For they said to me, ‘Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.’Exodus 32:24I said to them, ‘Whoever has any gold, let them take it off:’ so they gave it to me; and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf.”Deuteronomy 30:11For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.Deuteronomy 30:12It is not in heaven, that you should say, “Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?”Deuteronomy 30:13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, “Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?”Deuteronomy 30:14But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.Judges 6:12The angel of Yahweh appeared to him, and said to him, “Yahweh is with you, you mighty man of valor!”Judges 6:13Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”Judges 6:14Yahweh looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”Judges 6:15He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”Judges 6:16Yahweh said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man.”Judges 6:17He said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.1 Kings 19:19So he departed there, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing, with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed over to him, and cast his mantle on him.1 Kings 19:20He left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, “Let me please kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.” He said to him, “Go back again; for what have I done to you?”1 Kings 19:21He returned from following him, and took the yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and served him.2 Kings 5:10Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall come again to you, and you shall be clean.”2 Kings 5:11But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’2 Kings 5:12Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.2 Kings 5:13His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”2 Kings 5:14Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.Jeremiah 1:1The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:Jeremiah 1:4Now the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,Jeremiah 1:5“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”Jeremiah 1:6Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”Jeremiah 1:7But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak.Jeremiah 1:8Don’t be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you,” says Yahweh.Jeremiah 1:9Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.Jeremiah 1:10Behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”Matthew 8:21Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”Luke 9:59He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”Luke 9:60But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God.”Luke 9:61Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”Luke 9:62But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”Luke 14:18They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’Luke 14:19“Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’Luke 14:20“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’Acts 24:25As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”Romans 1:20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.Romans 2:1Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.
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