Jeremiah 3:4

Good News Translation

“And now you say to me, ‘You are my father, and you have loved me ever since I was a child.

Cross References

Psalm 119:9

How can young people keep their lives pure? By obeying your commands.

Psalm 48:14

“This God is our God forever and ever; he will lead us for all time to come.”

Psalm 71:17

You have taught me ever since I was young, and I still tell of your wonderful acts.

Psalm 71:5

Sovereign Lord, I put my hope in you; I have trusted in you since I was young.

Proverbs 1:4

They can make an inexperienced person clever and teach young people how to be resourceful.

Proverbs 2:17

who is faithless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows.

Jeremiah 2:2

to proclaim this message to everyone in Jerusalem. “I remember how faithful you were when you were young, how you loved me when we were first married; you followed me through the desert, through a land that had not been planted.

Jeremiah 2:27

You will all be disgraced—you that say that a tree is your father and that a rock is your mother. This will happen because you turned away from me instead of turning to me. But when you are in trouble, you ask me to come and save you.

Jeremiah 3:19

The Lord says, “Israel, I wanted to accept you as my child and give you a delightful land, the most beautiful land in all the world. I wanted you to call me father and never again turn away from me.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you hesitate, faithless people? I have created something new and different, as different as a woman protecting a man.”

Jeremiah 31:9

My people will return weeping, praying as I lead them back. I will guide them to streams of water, on a smooth road where they will not stumble. I am like a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my oldest son.”

Hosea 2:15

I will give back to her the vineyards she had and make Trouble Valley a door of hope. She will respond to me there as she did when she was young, when she came from Egypt.

Malachi 1:6

The Lord Almighty says to the priests, “Children honor their parents, and servants honor their masters. I am your father—why don't you honor me? I am your master—why don't you respect me? You despise me, and yet you ask, ‘How have we despised you?’

Malachi 2:14

You ask why he no longer accepts them. It is because he knows you have broken your promise to the wife you married when you were young. She was your partner, and you have broken your promise to her, although you promised before God that you would be faithful to her.