Jeremiah 23:28 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁸ Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? says the Lord.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; but he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat [for nourishment]? says the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? saith Jehovah.

Common English Bible

²⁸ Let the prophet who has a dream declare it, but let the one who has my word proclaim it faithfully. What a difference between straw and wheat! declares the LORD.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ The prophet who has had a dream, let him describe the dream. And he who receives my word, let him speak my word in truth. For what has the chaff to do with the wheat, says the Lord?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream: and he that hath my word, let him speak my word with truth. What hath the chaff to do with the wheat, saith the Lord?

Jeremiah 23:28 Cross References

1 Kings 22:14

But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I will speak.”

1 Kings 22:16

But the king said to him, “How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord?”

Proverbs 14:5

A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies.

Isaiah 21:10

O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you.

Jeremiah 23:25

I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’

Jeremiah 42:4

Jeremiah the prophet said to them, “I have heard you; behold, I will pray to the Lord your God according to your request, and whatever the Lord answers you I will tell you; I will keep nothing back from you.”

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

Jeremiah 9:20

Hear, O women, the word of the Lord, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.

Ezekiel 13:3

Thus says the Lord God, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Matthew 24:45

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

Luke 12:42

And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time?

1 Corinthians 4:2

Moreover it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word; but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

1 Timothy 1:12

I thank him who has given me strength for this, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful by appointing me to his service,