Jeremiah 8:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.

Cross References

Job 11:12

And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.

Job 12:20

He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

Psalm 147:19

He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

Proverbs 17:6

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.

Jeremiah 19:7

I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

Jeremiah 48:14

How say you, We are men of war and strong fighters?

Hosea 8:12

Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

Matthew 15:6

There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.

Romans 1:22

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,