Jeremiah 2:3

Catholic Public Domain Version

Israel is holy to the Lord, the first of his fruits. All those who devour him commit an offense. Evils will overwhelm them, says the Lord."

Cross References

Exodus 22:29

You shall not delay in paying your tithes and your first-fruits. You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.

Exodus 23:16

for it is the solemnity of the harvest of the first-fruits of your work, of whatever you have sown in the field. Likewise, it is a solemnity at the end of the season, when you will have gathered in all your crops from the field.

Isaiah 41:11

Behold, all who fight against you shall be confounded and ashamed. They will be as if they did not exist, and the men who contradict you will perish.

Isaiah 47:6

I was angry with my people. I have polluted my inheritance, and I have given them into your hand. You have not shown mercy to them. You have greatly increased the burden of your yoke upon the elders.

Jeremiah 12:14

Thus says the Lord against all my wicked neighbors, who touch the inheritance that I have distributed to my people Israel: "Behold, I will root them out of their own land, and I will root the house of Judah out of their midst.

Jeremiah 2:4

Listen to the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all you families of the house of Israel.

Jeremiah 30:16

Because of this, all those who devour you, will be devoured. And all your enemies will be led into captivity. And those who devastate you, will be devastated. And all those who prey upon you, I will offer as a prey.

Jeremiah 50:7

All whom they have found, they have devoured. And their enemies have said: 'We have not sinned. For it is they who have sinned against the Lord, the beauty of justice, and against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.'

Joel 1:3

Talk this over with your sons, and your sons with their sons, and their sons with another generation.

Amos 6:1

Woe to you who have been wealthy in Zion, and to you who have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: aristocrats, heads of the people, who advance with a retinue into the house of Israel.

Habakkuk 1:11

Then his spirit will be altered, and he will cross over and fall. Such is his strength from his god.

Zechariah 1:15

And, with a great anger, I am angry with the wealthy nations. Though I had been angry a little, truly they advanced further in evil.

Zechariah 2:8

For thus says the Lord of hosts: After the glory, he has sent me to the Gentiles, which have despoiled you. For he who touches you, touches the pupil of my eye.

Numbers 18:12

All the innermost of the oil, and of the wine, and of the grain, whatever first-fruits they offer to the Lord, I have given to you.

Romans 11:16

For if the first-fruit has been sanctified, so also has the whole. And if the root is holy, so also are the branches.

Romans 16:5

and greet the church at their house. Greet Epaenetus, my beloved, who is among the first-fruits of Asia in Christ.

Ephesians 1:4

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, so that we would be holy and immaculate in his sight, in charity.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a holy people, for the Lord your God. And he chose you, so that you may be a people particularly his, out of all the nations on earth.

Deuteronomy 26:19

and so that he may cause you to be more exalted than all the nations which he has created, for the sake of his own praise and name and glory, in order that you may be a holy people for the Lord your God, just as he has spoken."

Deuteronomy 7:6

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you so that you would be his particular people out of all the peoples who are upon the earth.

James 1:18

For by his own will he produced us through the Word of truth, so that we might be a kind of beginning among his creatures.

1 Peter 2:9

But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, an acquired people, so that you may announce the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Revelation 14:4

These are the ones who were not defiled with women, for they are Virgins. These follow the Lamb wherever he will go. These were redeemed from men as the first-fruits for God and for the Lamb.