Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;


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Psalms 78 22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Psalms 107 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
2 Samuel 22 42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Luke 20 5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
Psalms 78 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
Mark 11 31 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?
Galatians 3 19 Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
2 Chronicles 15 4 But when they in their trouble did turn unto the LORD God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.
2 Chronicles 17 4 But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
Psalms 78 37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
2 Chronicles 15 12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
Luke 24 5 And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
Galatians 3 23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
Psalms 53 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Luke 24 45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
Luke 17 5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
Psalms 78 10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Galatians 2 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Luke 2 45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.
Hebrews 7 19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Jonah 1 14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
Nehemiah 8 8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Judges 2 17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
Mark 2 8 And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
Romans 1 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Ezekiel 20 16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Romans 1 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
2 Kings 18 12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
Psalms 78 34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
Isaiah 58 2 Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Romans 7 12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.
Psalms 18 41 They cried, but there was none to save them: even unto the LORD, but he answered them not.
Acts 4 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?
Luke 5 22 But when Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answering said unto them, What reason ye in your hearts?
Acts 11 21 And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
Psalms 14 2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Acts 17 19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
Psalms 105 45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.
Nehemiah 10 29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
Judges 18 5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
1 Samuel 15 19 Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
Mark 1 37 And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.
Jeremiah 2 6 Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Luke 7 30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
2 Peter 2 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
Romans 11 30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Hebrews 3 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
John 12 43 For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Nehemiah 9 13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
2 Chronicles 30 3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.