Jeremiah 4:22

A Conservative Version

For my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are sottish sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, become not children in your thoughts. Instead be childlike in wickedness, but in your thoughts become mature.

Romans 16:19

For your obedience reached to all men. Therefore I rejoice over you, but I want you to be indeed wise in the good and pure in the evil.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, who have eyes, and see not, who have ears, and hear not:

Romans 3:11

There is no man who understands. There is no man who seeks God.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou have rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me. Since thou have forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy sons.

Romans 1:22

Professing to be wise, they became foolish,

Hosea 5:4

Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God, for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they do not know LORD.

John 16:3

And they will do these things, because they have not known the Father nor me.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Deuteronomy 32:28

For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

Romans 1:28

And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;

Jeremiah 13:23

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

Isaiah 27:11

When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he who formed them

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together brutish and foolish, the instruction of idols! It is but a block of wood.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of LORD, nor the law of their God.

Luke 16:8

And his lord commended the unrighteous manager because he did shrewdly. Because the sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the light.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of LORD, ye sons of Israel, for LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do ye thus requite LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father who has bought thee? He has made thee, and established thee.

2 Samuel 13:3

But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother. And Jonadab was a very sly man.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise [and] to do good.

Psalm 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon God?

Psalm 82:5

They know not, nor do they understand. They walk to and fro in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me. The rulers also transgressed against me. And the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.

Ezekiel 16:30

How weak is thy heart, says lord LORD, seeing thou do all these things, the work of an impudent harlot,

Amos 3:10

For they do not know to do right, says LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Genesis 39:16

And she laid up his garment by her until his master came home.

Psalm 36:4

He devises iniquity upon his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He does not abhor evil.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek LORD understand all things.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 9:5

And they will deceive each one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler asks, and the judge [is ready] for a bribe. And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.