Jeremiah 11:15 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁵ What right has my beloved in my house, when she has done vile deeds? Can vows and sacrificial flesh avert your doom? Can you then exult?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ What right has My beloved [to be] in My house when she has wrought lewdness and done treacherously many times? Can vows and the holy flesh [of your sacrifices] remove from you your wickedness and avert your calamity? Can you by these [escape your doom and] rejoice exultantly?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ What are my loved ones doing in my temple while working out their many evil schemes? Can sacred offerings cancel your sin so that you revel in your evil deeds?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Why has my beloved wrought great wickedness in my house? How can the holy flesh take away from you your wickedness, in which you have gloried?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ What is the meaning that my beloved hath wrought muck wickedness in my house? Shall the holy flesh take away from thee thy crimes in which thou hast boasted?

Jeremiah 11:15 Cross References

Psalm 50:16

But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?

Psalm 60:5

That thy beloved may be delivered, give victory by thy right hand and answer us!

Proverbs 10:23

It is like sport to a fool to do wrong, but wise conduct is pleasure to a man of understanding.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 2:14

who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent.

Proverbs 26:18

Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,

Proverbs 28:9

If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.

Isaiah 50:1

Thus says the Lord: “Where is your mother's bill of divorce, with which I put her away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you were sold, and for your transgressions your mother was put away.

Jeremiah 12:7

“I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.

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 15:1

Then the Lord said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go!

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord, I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Jeremiah 23:11

“Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their wickedness, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:14

Return, O faithless children, says the Lord; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Jeremiah 3:8

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce; yet her false sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the harlot.

Hosea 3:1

And the Lord said to me, “Go again, love a woman who is beloved of a paramour and is an adulteress; even as the Lord loves the people of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”

Matthew 22:11

“But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment;

Luke 8:28

When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beseech you, do not torment me.”

Romans 11:28

As regards the gospel they are enemies of God, for your sake; but as regards election they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.

1 Corinthians 13:6

it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.

Titus 1:15

To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.

James 4:16

As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.