And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court.

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.