Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who name evil as good and good as evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn bitter into sweet and sweet into bitter.
Treated in 10 passages across the library.
Where it is preached
- The Key Teachings of C. S. Lewis ·
The Law Written on the Heart cites ISAIAH 5:20
…for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! ISAIAH 5:20 Weighing it Lewis’s moral argument has been one of the most widely used tools of…
- The Bondage of the Will ·
Discussion: Part the Third cites Isaiah v. 20
…which they themselves confess to be ignorance? Is this not to “put darkness for light?” (Isaiah v. 20). But so it is, though God so powerfully stop the mouth of “Free-will” by its own…
- The Key Teachings of G. K. Chesterton ·
The Thought That Stops Thought cites ISAIAH 5:20
…that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness. ISAIAH 5:20 Humility in the wrong place In the middle of the chapter comes a passage that has been…
- The Key Teachings of Catherine Booth ·
Things by Their Right Names cites ISAIAH 5:20
…for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! ISAIAH 5:20 Catherine Booth believed from girlhood that a Christianity worth the name must change not…
- The Key Teachings of Augustine of Hippo ·
Forgive Us Our Debts cites ISAIAH 5:20
…that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness. ISAIAH 5:20 Every age has its accustomed sins, and Augustine admits that in his own day some were…
- The Saint and His Saviour ·
The Despised Friend cites Isaiah v. 20
…and they that seek me early shall find me.” a Grace Abounding. b Boyle. c Clarendon. d Isaiah v. 20. e 1 John ii. 15.
- The Bruised Reed ·
Christ's government shall be openly victorious cites Isaiah v. 20
…of persons and things, because it cometh under a woe to call ill good, and good ill, Isaiah v. 20. How will they be laden with curses another day, that abuse the judgment of others by…
- Sermons on Several Occasions ·
Christian Perfection cites Isa. 5:20
…essential to salvation: They do not “put darkness for light, or light for darkness;” [Isa. 5:20] neither “seek death in the error of their life.” [Wisdom 1:12] For they are “taught of…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Covenant of Works cites Isa 5:20
…than the honey-comb,’ Psa 19:10, tastes bitter to him, he puts ‘sweet for bitter.’ Isa 5:20. This is a disease, and nothing can cure this disease but the blood of the Physician. [6]…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Original Sin cites Isa 5:20
…we do not judge rightly of things, we put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Isa 5:20. Besides this, there is much pride, superciliousness and prejudice, and many fleshly…