Jeremiah 7:6

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if you stop mistreating foreigners and orphans and widows, and if you stop murdering innocent people and stop hurting yourselves by worshiping other gods,

Cross References

2 Kings 21:6

He even he sacrificed his own son as a burnt offering, and used fortune-telling and witchcraft, and he dealt with mediums and with spiritists. He did a great deal of evil in the Lord's sight, making the Lord angry.

2 Kings 24:4

filling Jerusalem with their blood. The Lord was not willing to forgive this.

Psalm 106:38

They shed the blood of innocent children, their sons and daughters, sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan. By doing so they defiled the land with blood.

Proverbs 23:10

Don't move ancient boundary markers, and don't encroach on fields belonging to orphans,

Isaiah 59:7

They run to do evil; they're quick to murder innocent people. Their minds are full of sinful thoughts; they only cause havoc and destruction.

Jeremiah 13:10

These evil people refuse to listen to what I tell them. They follow their own stubborn and evil thinking and run off to worship other gods—they will be like this loincloth, completely useless.

Jeremiah 19:4

My people have deserted me and have made this a place where foreign gods are worshiped. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they and their forefathers and the kings of Judah never knew anything about. They have filled this place with the blood of innocent people.

Jeremiah 2:30

It was pointless of me to punish your children because they refused to accept any discipline. You used your own swords to kill your prophets, destroying them like a ferocious lion.

Jeremiah 2:34

On top of that, your clothes are stained with the blood of the poor and the innocent. It's not like you killed them breaking into your homes. Despite all this,

Jeremiah 26:15

But be careful, because you need to be aware that if you kill me, you will make yourselves, this city, and everyone who lives here guilty of murder, because it's true that the Lord sent me to tell you everything he said.”

Jeremiah 26:23

They brought Uriah back from Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim. The king killed him with a sword and had his body thrown into the public graveyard.

Jeremiah 35:15

Time and again I've sent you so many of my servants the prophets to tell you: Everyone, stop your evil ways and do what's right! Don't go following other gods and worshiping them. Live in the land that I gave you and your fathers. But you haven't paid attention or obeyed me.

Jeremiah 5:28

They've grown fat and smooth, and have become experts in evil. They deny justice to orphans, and they don't defend the rights of those in need.

Jeremiah 7:5

If you sincerely change your ways and do what's right, if you treat each other fairly,

Jeremiah 7:9

Are you really going to continue stealing, murdering, committing adultery, and lying, burning incense to Baal, and worshiping other gods that you know nothing about,

Lamentations 4:13

But this happened because of the sins of her prophets and the wickedness of her priests, who shed the blood of the innocent right there in the city.

Ezekiel 18:6

He doesn't go to the pagan shrines in the mountains to eat a religious meal, or worship Israel's idols. He doesn't have sex with someone else's wife or with a woman during her period.

Ezekiel 22:7

You despise your parents. You exploit the foreigners who live with you, and you mistreat orphans and widows.

Leviticus 19:33

Don't mistreat foreigners who live in your country.

Leviticus 25:17

Don't exploit one another, but have respect for your God, because I am the Lord your God.

Malachi 3:5

I will come and put you on trial. I am ready to be a witness against those who: practice witchcraft commit adultery tell lies give false evidence cheat employees oppress widows and orphans abuse foreigners and do not respect me, says the Lord Almighty.

Matthew 27:25

All the people answered, “His blood is on us, and on our children!”

Matthew 27:4

“I've sinned! I've betrayed innocent blood!” he told them. “What's that got to do with us?” they replied. “That's your problem!”

Deuteronomy 11:28

But you will receive a curse if you disobey the commandments of the Lord your God and don't keep to the path I'm ordering you to follow today by worshiping some other unknown gods.

Deuteronomy 24:17

Don't treat foreigners or orphans unjustly; don't take a widow's cloak as security.

Deuteronomy 27:19

“A curse on anyone who doesn't treat foreigners, the orphans, and widows fairly!” Everyone says “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 8:19

If you ever forget the Lord your God, and run after other gods, worshiping and bowing down to them, I assure you right now that you will definitely die!

James 1:27

In the eyes of our God and Father, religion that's pure and genuine is to visit orphans and widows in their suffering, and to keep yourself from being contaminated by the world.