Jeremiah 4:22

English Standard Version 2016

“For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”

Cross References

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Romans 16:19

For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.

Jeremiah 5:21

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.

Romans 3:11

no one understands; no one seeks for God.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not the Lord.

John 16:3

And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Deuteronomy 32:28

“For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.

Luke 16:8

The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?

2 Samuel 13:3

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother. And Jonadab was a very crafty man.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

Psalm 53:4

Have those who work evil no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?

Psalm 82:5

They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:30

“How sick is your heart, declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute,

Amos 3:10

“They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord, “those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”

Genesis 39:16

Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,

Psalm 36:4

He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the desert a travelers’ lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 9:5

Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.