1 Corinthians 14:20-22
14:20 Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Instead, be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
14:21 It is written in the law: “By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people, yet not even in this way will they listen to me,” says the Lord.
14:22 So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.
1 Corinthians 5:11
5:11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian
who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive,
or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.
1 Corinthians 6:9
6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,
1 Corinthians 8:7
8:7 But this knowledge is not shared by all. And some, by being accustomed to idols in former times, eat this food as an idol sacrifice, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled.
Deuteronomy 9:12
9:12 And he said to me, “Get up, go down at once from here because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have sinned! They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them and have made for themselves a cast metal image.”
Deuteronomy 9:16-21
9:16 When I looked, you had indeed sinned against the
Lord your God and had cast for yourselves a metal calf;
you had quickly turned aside from the way he
had commanded you!
9:17 I grabbed the two tablets, threw them down,
and shattered them before your very eyes.
9:18 Then I again fell down before the
Lord for forty days and nights; I ate and drank nothing because of all the sin you had committed, doing such evil before the
Lord as to enrage him.
9:19 For I was terrified at the
Lord’s intense anger
that threatened to destroy you. But he
listened to me this time as well.
9:20 The
Lord was also angry enough at Aaron to kill him, but at that time I prayed for him
too.
9:21 As for your sinful thing
that you had made, the calf, I took it, melted it down,
ground it up until it was as fine as dust, and tossed the dust into the stream that flows down the mountain.
Psalms 106:19-20
106:19 They made an image of a calf at Horeb,
and worshiped a metal idol.
106:20 They traded their majestic God
for the image of an ox that eats grass.
Psalms 106:1
Psalm 106
106:1 Praise the Lord!
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
and his loyal love endures!
Psalms 5:1
Psalm 5
For the music director, to be accompanied by wind instruments; a psalm of David.
5:1 Listen to what I say, Lord!
Carefully consider my complaint!