Deuteronomy 32:5
Good News Translation
But you are unfaithful, unworthy to be his people, a sinful and deceitful nation.

New Revised Standard Version
yet his degenerate children have dealt falsely with him, a perverse and crooked generation.

Contemporary English Version
But you lie and cheat and are unfaithful to him. You have disgraced yourselves and are no longer worthy to be his children.

New American Bible
Yet his degenerate children have treated him basely, a twisted and crooked generation!

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.

Deuteronomy 4:16 Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven similitude, or image of male or female,

Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will quickly turn aside form the way that I have commanded you: and evils shall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands.

Genesis 6:12 And when God had seen that the earth was corrupted (for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth),

Exodus 32:7 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned.

Judges 2:19 But after the judge was dead, they returned, and did much worse things than their fathers had done, following strange gods, serving them, and adoring them. They left not their own inventions, and the stubborn way, by which they were accustomed to walk.

Isaiah 1:4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.

Hosea 9:9 They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin.

Zephaniah 3:7 I said: Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive correction: and her dwelling shall not perish, for all things wherein I have visited her: but they rose early, and corrupted all their thoughts.

2 Corinthians 11:3 But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

John 8:41 You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.

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Deuteronomy 9:24 But were always rebellious from the day that I began to know you.

Psalm 78:8 That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Isaiah 1:4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.

Matthew 3:7 And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

Matthew 16:4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he left them, and went away.

Matthew 17:17 And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour.

Luke 9:41 And Jesus, answering:, said: O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and suffer you? Bring hither thy son.

Acts 7:51 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.

Philippians 2:15 That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.

Context
The Song of Moses
4The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right. 5They have sinned against him, and are none of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.6Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?…
Cross References
Matthew 17:17
And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour.

Acts 2:40
And with very many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying: Save yourselves from this perverse generation.

Philippians 2:15
That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world.

Numbers 23:21
There is no idol in Jacob, neither is there an image god to be seen in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the sound of the victory of the king in him.

Deuteronomy 4:25
If you shall beget sons and grandsons, and abide in the land, and being deceived, make to yourselves any similitude, committing evil before the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath:

Deuteronomy 31:29
For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will quickly turn aside form the way that I have commanded you: and evils shall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands.

Deuteronomy 32:20
And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.

Proverbs 8:8
They are right to them that understand, and just to them that find knowledge.

Deuteronomy 32:4
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