Jeremiah 9:3

Easy To Read Version

“Those people use their tongues like a bow;\par lies fly from their mouths like arrows.\par Lies, not truth, have grown strong in this land.\par Those people go from one sin to another.\par They don’t know me.”\par The Lord said these things.\par

Cross References

Genesis 39:16

Then she kept his coat until her husband, Joseph’s master, came home.

Proverbs 12:5

Good people are fair and honest in the things they plan to do. But don’t trust the things an evil person tells you.

Isaiah 1:3

A cow knows its master.\par And a donkey knows the place where its owner feeds it.\par But the people of Israel don’t know me.\par My people don’t understand.”\par

Isaiah 3:5

Every person will be against every other person. Young people will not respect older people. Common people will not respect the important people.”

Isaiah 6:5

I became very scared. I said, “Oh, no! I will be destroyed. I am not pure (good) enough to speak to God. And I live among people that are not pure enough to speak to God. {\cf2\super [66]} Yet I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”

Isaiah 9:18

Evil is like a small fire. First, the fire burns weeds and thorns. Next, the fire burns the larger bushes in the forest. And finally, it becomes a great fire—and everything goes up in smoke.

Jeremiah 12:6

These men are your own brothers.\par Members of your own family\par are making plans against you.\par People from your own family\par are yelling at you.\par Don’t trust them,\par even when they speak to you like friends.”\par

Jeremiah 22:16

Josiah helped the poor and needy people.\par Josiah did that,\par so everything went well for him.\par Jehoiakim, what does it mean\par “to know God?”\par It means living right and being fair.\par That is what it means to know me.\par This message is from the Lord.\par

Jeremiah 31:34

People will not have to teach their neighbors and relatives to know the Lord. Why? Because all people, from the least important to the greatest, will know me.” This message is from the Lord. “I will forgive them for the bad things they did. I won’t remember their sins.”

Jeremiah 4:22

\{God said,\} “My people are foolish.\par They don’t know me.\par They are stupid children.\par They don’t understand.\par They are skillful at doing evil,\par but they don’t know how to do good.”\par

Jeremiah 5:4

But I (Jeremiah) said to myself,\par “It must be only the poor people\par that are so foolish.\par Poor people have not learned\par the way of the Lord.\par Poor people don’t know\par the teachings of their God.\par

Jeremiah 5:5

So I will go to the leaders of Judah.\par I will talk to them.\par Surely the leaders know the way of the Lord.\par I am sure they know the law of their God.”\par But the leaders had all joined together\par to break away from serving the Lord.\par

Jeremiah 6:28

My people have turned against me,\par and they are very stubborn.\par They say bad things about people.\par They are like bronze and iron,\par that are covered with rust and tarnish.\par

Jeremiah 7:26

But your ancestors did not listen to me. They did not pay attention to me. They were very stubborn and did evil worse than their fathers.

Jeremiah 9:5

Every person lies to his neighbor.\par No person speaks the truth.\par The people of Judah have taught\par their tongues to lie.\par They sinned until they were too tired\par to come back.\par

Jeremiah 9:8

The people of Judah have tongues\par that are like sharp arrows.\par Their mouths speak lies.\par Each person speaks nice to his neighbor.\par But he is secretly planning ways\par to attack his neighbor.\par

Ezekiel 8:13

Then \{God\} said to me, “If you come with me, you will see those men doing even more terrible things!”

Daniel 11:27

Those two kings will have their hearts set on hurting each other. They will sit at the same table and lie to each other, but it will not do either one any good. Why? Because God has set a time for their end to come.

Leviticus 19:11

“You must not steal. You must not cheat people. You must not lie to each other.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life: that people can know you, the only true God, and that people can know Jesus Christ, the One you sent.

Acts 24:9

The other Jews agreed. They said, “These things are really true!”

Romans 1:16

I am proud of the Good News. The Good News is the power God uses to save every person that believes—to save the Jews first, and also to save the non-Jews.

Romans 1:28

People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed those people to have their own worthless thinking. And so those people do the things that they should not do.

Romans 3:13

“People’s mouths are like open graves;\par they use their tongues for telling lies.”\par \i (Psalm 5:9)\i0 \par

1 Corinthians 15:34

Come back to your right way of thinking and stop sinning. Some of you don’t know God. I say this to shame you.

Philippians 1:28

And you will not be afraid of those people who are against you. All of these things are proof from God that you are being saved and that your enemies will be lost.

2 Timothy 3:13

People who are evil and cheat other people will become worse and worse. They will fool other people, but they will also be fooling themselves.

Revelation 12:11

Our brothers defeated him by the blood (death) of the Lamb and by the message \{of God\} they told people. They did not love their lives too much. They were not afraid of death.

Judges 14:17

Samson’s wife cried for the rest of the seven days of the party. So he finally gave her the answer to the riddle on the seventh day. He told her because she kept bothering him. Then she went to her people and told them the answer to the riddle.

Judges 2:10

After that whole generation died, the next generation grew up. This new generation did not know about the Lord and what the Lord had done for the people of Israel.

1 Samuel 2:12

Eli’s sons were bad men. They did not care about the Lord.