Jeremiah 10:3

Catholic Public Domain Version

For the laws of the people are empty. For the work of the hand of the craftsman has cut a tree from the forest with an axe.

Cross References

Psalm 115:4

I will take up the cup of salvation, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves, and approach, and draw near together, you who have been saved among the Gentiles. They lack knowledge, who lift up the wood of their sculpture, and who petition a god unable to save.

Jeremiah 1:16

And I will speak my judgments with them, concerning all the wickedness of those who have forsaken me, and who have offered libations to strange gods, and who have adored the work of their own hands.

Jeremiah 10:8

Together, they will all be proven to be unwise and foolish. The doctrine of their vanity is made of wood.

Jeremiah 14:22

Could any of the graven images of the Gentiles send rain? Or are the heavens able to give showers? Have we not hoped in you, the Lord our God? For you have made all these things."

Jeremiah 16:19

"O Lord, my strength, and my health, and my refuge in the day of tribulation: the Gentiles will approach you from the ends of the earth, and they will say: 'Truly, our fathers possessed a lie, an emptiness that has not benefited them.'

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says the Lord: "What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they would draw far away from me, and would walk after emptiness, and would become empty?

Leviticus 18:30

Keep my commandments. Do not be willing to do the things which have been done by those who were before you, and do not be polluted by these things. I am the Lord your God.

Matthew 6:7

And when praying, do not choose many words, as the pagans do. For they think that by their excess of words they might be heeded.

Acts 19:26

And you are seeing and hearing that this man Paul, by persuasion, has turned away a great multitude, not only from Ephesus, but from nearly all of Asia, saying, 'These things are not gods which have been made by hands.'

Romans 1:21

For although they had known God, they did not glorify God, nor give thanks. Instead, they became weakened in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was obscured.

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that it was not with corruptible gold or silver that you were redeemed away from your useless behavior in the traditions of your fathers,