Excuses
GEN 3:12 The man said, "The woman you put here with me--she gave me some
fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The
woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
EXO 4:1 Moses answered, "What if they do not believe me or listen to me
and say, 'The LORD did not appear to you'?"
10 Moses said to the LORD, "O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in
the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and
tongue."
11 The LORD said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or
mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say."
13 But Moses said, "O Lord, please send someone else to do it."
14 Then the LORD'S anger burned against Moses and he said, "What about
your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on
his way to meet you, and his heart will be glad when he sees you.
32:22 "Do not be angry, my lord," Aaron answered. "You know how prone
these people are to evil.
23 They said to me, 'Make us gods who will go before us. As for this
fellow Moses who brought us up out of
happened to him.'
24 So I told them, 'Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.' Then they
gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!"
DEU 30:11 Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you
or beyond your reach.
12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, "Who will ascend into
heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"
13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, "Who will cross the
sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"
14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so
you may obey it.
JDG 6:12 When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, "The LORD
is with you, mighty warrior."
13 "But sir," Gideon replied, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this
happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our fathers told us about
when they said, 'Did not the LORD bring us up out of
LORD has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian."
14 The LORD turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and save
15 "But Lord," Gideon asked, "how can I save
weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family."
16 The LORD answered, "I will be with you, and you will strike down all
the Midianites together."
17 Gideon replied, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign
that it is really you talking to me.
1KI 19:19 So Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He
was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he himself was driving the
twelfth pair. Elijah went up to him and threw his cloak around him.
20 Elisha then left his oxen and ran after Elijah. "Let me kiss my father
and mother good-by," he said, "and then I will come with you." "Go back,"
Elijah replied. "What have I done to you?"
21 So Elisha left him and went back. He took his yoke of oxen and
slaughtered them. He burned the plowing equipment to cook the meat and gave
it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow Elijah and became
his attendant.
2KI 5:10 Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, "Go, wash yourself seven
times in the
cleansed."
11 But Naaman went away angry and said, "I thought that he would surely
come out to me and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, wave his
hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy.
12 Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of
the waters of
turned and went off in a rage.
13 Naaman's servants went to him and said, "My father, if the prophet had
told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more,
then, when he tells you, '
14 So he went down and dipped himself in the
man of God had told him, and his flesh was restored and became clean like
that of a young boy.
JER 1:1 The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at
Anathoth in the
4 The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set
you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
6 "Ah, Sovereign LORD," I said, "I do not know how to speak; I am only a
child."
7 But the LORD said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a child.' You must go
to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you.
8 Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,"
declares the LORD.
9 Then the LORD reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me,
"Now, I have put my words in your mouth.
10 See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear
down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant."
MAT 8:21 Another disciple said to him, "Lord, first let me go and bury my
father."
LUK 9:59 He said to another man, "Follow me." But the man replied, "Lord,
first let me go and bury my father."
60 Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and
proclaim the
61 Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back
and say good-by to my family."
62 Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is
fit for service in the
14:18 "But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, 'I have
just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.'
19 "Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm on my way
to try them out. Please excuse me.'
20 "Still another said, 'I just got married, so I can't come.'
ACT 24:25 As Paul discoursed on righteousness, self-control and the
judgment to come, Felix was afraid and said, "That's enough for now! You
may leave. When I find it convenient, I will send for you."
ROM 1:20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--
his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
2:1 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else,
for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself,
because you who pass judgment do the same things.
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