Jeremiah 8:5

A Conservative Version

Why then has this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firm deceit. They refuse to return.

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:6

Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they refuse to know me, says LORD.

Jeremiah 5:3

O LORD, do not thine eyes look upon truth? Thou have stricken them, but they were not grieved. Thou have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused t

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

Hebrews 12:25

Watch, that ye not refuse him who speaks. For if those men did not escape, having refused him who spoke a divine message on earth, much more we, those who turn away from him from the heavens,

John 5:40

And ye will not come to me, so that ye may have life.

Hosea 11:7

And my people are bent on backsliding from me. Though they call them to [him who is] on high, none at all will exalt [him].

Jeremiah 5:27

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grown rich.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside. And he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, Do not see, and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things. Speak to us smooth things. Prophesy deceits.

Revelation 2:25

But hold firm what ye have until I come.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

but examine all things. Hold firm the good.

Hosea 4:16

For Israel has behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Now LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Jeremiah 2:32

Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

Isaiah 1:20

But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword, for the mouth of LORD has spoken it.

Proverbs 4:13

Take firm hold of instruction. Do not let her go. Keep her, for she is thy life.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them; a wolf of the evenings shall destroy them; a leopard shall watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are m

Jeremiah 14:7

Though our iniquities testify against us, work thou for thy name's sake, O LORD. For our backslidings are many. We have sinned against thee.

Daniel 9:11

Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside, that they should not obey thy voice. Therefore the curse has been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God. For we have s

Jeremiah 3:5

Will he retain [his anger] forever? Will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou have spoken, and have done evil things, and have had thy way.

Jeremiah 6:17

And I set watchmen over you, [saying], Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth: Behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened to my words. And as for my law, they have rejected it.

Hosea 11:5

They shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be their king, because they refused to return [to me].

Hosea 13:2

And now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, Let the men who sacrifice kiss the ca