Psalms 81:12
So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
BSB
ASV
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
KJV
So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
And I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall go on in their own devices. Unhappy is he who is not corrected by God. If anyone sinning is not struck, he is wretched. Therefore he says: I let them go according to the desires of their heart. For this reason I let them go, because I often struck them and they did not accept discipline. I entreated, they did not hear; I struck, they did not feel the pain.
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust. No punishment is more just or more severe than this. If men will not be checked, but madly take the bit between their teeth and refuse obedience, who shall wonder if the reins are thrown upon their necks, and they are let alone to work out their own destruction. It were better to be given up to lions than to our hearts' lusts. And they walked in their own counsels.
The walk8
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Romans 1:24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
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But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and…
In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.
Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
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Acts 7:42But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and…
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Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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Isaiah 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
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All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
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Acts 14:16In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.
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Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.