Jeremiah 9:5

God's Word

Everyone cheats his neighbor. No one speaks the truth. My people train their tongues to speak lies. They wear themselves out doing wrong.

Cross References

Genesis 19:11

Then they struck all the men who were in the doorway of the house, young and old alike, with blindness so that they gave up trying to find the door.

Job 11:3

Should your empty talk silence others so that you can make fun of us without any shame?

Job 15:5

Your sin teaches you what to say. You choose ⌞to talk with⌟ a sly tongue.

Psalm 140:3

They make their tongues as sharp as a snake’s ⌞fang⌟. Their lips hide the venom of poisonous snakes. Selah

Psalm 50:19

You let your mouth say anything evil. Your tongue plans deceit.

Psalm 52:3

You prefer evil to good. You prefer lying to speaking the truth. Selah

Psalm 64:3

They sharpen their tongues like swords. They aim bitter words like arrows

Psalm 7:14

See how that person conceives evil, is pregnant with harm, and gives birth to lies.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of righteous people are fair. The advice of wicked people is treacherous.

Proverbs 4:16

Wicked people cannot sleep unless they do wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep unless they make someone stumble.

Isaiah 5:18

How horrible it will be for those who string people along with lies and empty promises, whose lives are sinful.

Isaiah 57:10

You’ve tired yourself out with many journeys. You didn’t think that it was hopeless. You’ve found renewed strength, so you didn’t faint.

Jeremiah 12:13

My people planted wheat, but they harvested thorns. They worked until they became sick, but they gained nothing by it. They were disappointed by their harvests because of the burning anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 12:6

Even your relatives and members of your father’s household betray you. They have also formed a mob to find you. Don’t trust them when they say good things about you.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can Ethiopians change the color of their skin or leopards change their spots? Can you do good when you’re taught to do wrong?

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 51:58

This is what the Lord of Armies says: The thick walls of Babylon will be leveled, and its high gates will be set on fire. People exhaust themselves for nothing. The nations wear themselves out only to have a fire.

Jeremiah 51:64

Say, ‘Babylon will sink like this scroll. It will never rise again because of the disasters that I will bring on it.’ ” The words of Jeremiah end here.

Jeremiah 7:28

You will say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the Lord their God. They did not accept discipline. Truth has disappeared and vanished from their lips.’

Jeremiah 9:3

They use their tongues like bows that shoot arrows. Lies and dishonesty rule the land. They go from one evil thing to another, and they don’t know me,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They speak deceitfully. People speak politely to their neighbors, but they think of ways to set traps for them.

Ezekiel 24:12

“ ‘I have worn myself out trying to clean this pot. Even the fire can’t take away its thick tarnish.

Micah 6:12

The rich people in the city are violent. Those who live in the city speak lies, and their tongues speak deceitfully.

Micah 6:3

“My people, what have I done to you? How have I tried your patience? Answer me!

Habakkuk 2:13

Isn’t it from the Lord of Armies that people grow tired only to feed the flames and nations exhaust themselves for nothing?

Malachi 2:10

Don’t all of us have the same father? Hasn’t the same God created us? Why are we unfaithful to each other? And why do we dishonor the promise given to our ancestors?

Ephesians 4:25

So then, get rid of lies. Speak the truth to each other, because we are all members of the same body.

1 Timothy 4:2

These people will speak lies disguised as truth. Their consciences have been scarred as if branded by a red-hot iron.

Judges 2:10

That whole generation had joined their ancestors in death. So another generation grew up after them. They had no personal experience with the Lord or with what he had done for Israel.