Jeremiah 4:14 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved! How long shall your iniquitous and grossly offensive thoughts lodge within you?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Cleanse your heart of evil, Jerusalem, that you may be saved. How long will you entertain your destructive ideas?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Wash your heart from malice, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will harmful thoughts abide in you?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved. How long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

Jeremiah 4:14 Cross References

Psalm 119:113

I hate double-minded men, but I love thy law.

Psalm 51:2

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!

Psalm 66:18

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Isaiah 55:7

let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your lewd harlotries, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?”

Jeremiah 17:1

“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron; with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars,

Jeremiah 18:11

Now, therefore, say to the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: ‘Thus says the Lord, Behold, I am shaping evil against you and devising a plan against you. Return, every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.’

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 6:19

Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing evil upon this people, the fruit of their devices, because they have not given heed to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

Ezekiel 18:31

Cast away from you all the transgressions which you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?

Zechariah 8:17

do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, says the Lord.”

Matthew 12:33

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for the tree is known by its fruit.

Luke 11:39

And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of extortion and wickedness.

John 13:9

Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!”

Acts 8:22

Repent therefore of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, the intent of your heart may be forgiven you.

Romans 1:21

for although they knew God they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened.

1 Corinthians 3:20

and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

James 4:8

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you men of double mind.