Jeremiah 25:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

They told you that the LORD had said: Change your ways! If you stop doing evil, I will let you stay for ever in this land that I gave your ancestors.

Cross References

Genesis 17:8

I will give you and them the land in which you are now a foreigner. I will give the whole land of Canaan to your family for ever, and I will be their God.

Psalm 139:24

Don't let me follow evil ways, but lead me in the way that time has proved true.

Psalm 37:27

If you stop sinning and start doing right, you will keep living and be secure for ever.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves clean! I am disgusted with your filthy deeds. Stop doing wrong

Jeremiah 17:25

then Judah and Jerusalem will always be ruled by kings from David's family. The king and his officials will ride through these gates on horses or in chariots, and the people of Judah and Jerusalem will be with them. There will always be people living in Jerusalem,

Jeremiah 18:11

So listen to me, people of Judah and Jerusalem! I have decided to strike you with disaster, and I won't change my mind unless you stop sinning and start living right.

Jeremiah 35:15

You refused to listen to my prophets, who kept telling you, “Stop doing evil and worshipping other gods! Start obeying the LORD, and he will let you live in this land he gave your ancestors.”

Jeremiah 4:1

The LORD said: Israel, if you really want to come back to me, get rid of those disgusting idols.

Jeremiah 7:7

Then I will let you enjoy a long life in this land I gave your ancestors.

Ezekiel 18:30

I will judge each of you for what you've done. So stop sinning, or else you will certainly be punished.

Ezekiel 33:11

Tell them that as surely as I am the living LORD God, I don't like to see wicked people die. I enjoy seeing them turn from their sins and live. So if the Israelites want to live, they must stop sinning and turn back to me.

Hosea 1:7

But I am the LORD God of Judah, and I will have mercy and save Judah by my own power—not by wars and arrows or swords and cavalry.”

Acts 26:20

First I preached to the people in Damascus, and then I went to Jerusalem and all over Judea. Finally, I went to the Gentiles and said, “Stop sinning and turn to God! Then prove what you have done by the way you live.”