Jeremiah 13:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ Can Cushites change their skin or leopards their spots? Then also you can do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also can you do good who are accustomed and taught [even trained] to do evil.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Common English Bible

²³ Can a Cushite change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good when doing evil comes so naturally.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ If the Ethiopian is able to change his skin, or the leopard is able to change his spots, then you also may be able to do well, though you have learned evil.

Jeremiah 13:23 Cross References

Jeremiah 2:22

Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, says the Lord God.

Jeremiah 9:5

They all deceive their neighbors, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongues to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse— who can understand it?

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth? You have struck them, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to turn back.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I have struck down your children; they accepted no correction. Your own sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you seek further beatings? Why do you continue to rebel? The whole head is injured, and the whole heart faint.

Proverbs 27:22

Crush a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, but the folly will not be driven out.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”

1 Samuel 19:21

When Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they also fell into a frenzy. Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also fell into a frenzy.

2 Kings 17:40

They would not listen, however, but continued to practice their former custom.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.