Jeremiah 13:23 - The Scriptures 2009

²³ Does a Kushite change his skin and a leopard its spots? You who are taught to do evil are also unable to do good!

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ If the Ethiopian can change his skin or the leopard his spots: you may also do well when you have learned evil.

Jeremiah 13:23 Cross References

2 Kings 17:40

And they did not obey, but did according to their former ruling.

Proverbs 27:22

Even if you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle Along with crushed grain, His folly shall not leave him.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

The crooked could not be straightened, and what is lacking could not be counted.

Isaiah 1:5

Why should you be stricken any more? You continue in apostasy! All the head is sick, and all the heart faints.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is crooked above all, and desperately sick – who shall know it?

Jeremiah 2:22

“Although you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your crookedness is ingrained before Me,” declares the Master יהוה.

Jeremiah 2:30

“In vain have I stricken your children – they received no instruction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are stupid children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

Jeremiah 5:3

O יהוה, are Your eyes not on truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive instruction. They made their faces stronger than rock, they refused to turn back.

Jeremiah 9:5

“And everyone deceives his neighbour, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood, and have wearied themselves to crook.

1 Samuel 19:21

And when Sha’ul was told, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. So Sha’ul sent messengers again, the third time, and they prophesied also.