Jeremiah 8:8

God's Word

“ ‘How can you say that you are wise and that you have the Lord’s teachings? The scribes have used their pens to turn these teachings into lies.

Cross References

Job 11:12

But an empty-headed person will gain understanding when a wild donkey is born tame.

Job 12:20

He makes trusted advisers unable to speak and takes away the good judgment of respected leaders.

Psalm 147:19

He speaks his word to Jacob, his laws and judicial decisions to Israel.

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of grandparents, and parents are the glory of their children.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first ancestor sinned, and your priests rebelled against me.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Let’s plot against Jeremiah, because the teachings of the priests, the advice of wise people, and the word of the prophets won’t disappear. Accuse him! Pay no attention to anything he says.”

Jeremiah 19:7

I will smash the plans of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. I will cut them down with swords in front of their enemies and with the hands of those who want to kill them. I will give their bodies as food to birds and to animals.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests didn’t ask, “Where is the Lord?” Those who deal with my teachings didn’t know me. The rulers rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied in the name of Baal and followed statues that couldn’t help them.

Jeremiah 4:22

“My people are fools. They don’t know me. They are stupid people. They don’t understand. They are experts in doing wrong, and they don’t know how to do good.”

Jeremiah 48:14

“How can you say, ‘We are soldiers and warriors’?

Hosea 8:12

I have written many things for them in my teachings, but they consider these things strange and foreign.

Matthew 15:6

does not have to honor his father. Because of your traditions you have destroyed the authority of God’s word.

John 9:41

Jesus told them, “If you were blind, you wouldn’t be sinners. But now you say, ‘We see,’ so you continue to be sinners.

Romans 1:22

While claiming to be wise, they became fools.