Jeremiah 9:3

Good News Translation

They are always ready to tell lies; dishonesty instead of truth rules the land. The Lord says, “My people do one evil thing after another and do not acknowledge me as their God.”

Cross References

Genesis 39:16

She kept his robe with her until Joseph's master came home.

Proverbs 12:5

Honest people will treat you fairly; the wicked only want to deceive you.

Isaiah 1:3

Cattle know who owns them, and donkeys know where their master feeds them. But that is more than my people Israel know. They don't understand at all.”

Isaiah 3:5

Everyone will take advantage of everyone else. Young people will not respect their elders, and worthless people will not respect their superiors.

Isaiah 6:5

I said, “There is no hope for me! I am doomed because every word that passes my lips is sinful, and I live among a people whose every word is sinful. And yet, with my own eyes I have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

Isaiah 9:18

The wickedness of the people burns like a fire that destroys thorn bushes and thistles. It burns like a forest fire that sends up columns of smoke.

Jeremiah 12:6

Even your relatives, members of your own family, have betrayed you; they join in the attacks against you. Do not trust them, even though they speak friendly words.”

Jeremiah 22:16

He gave the poor a fair trial, and all went well with him. That is what it means to know the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:34

None of them will have to teach a neighbor to know the Lord, because all will know me, from the least to the greatest. I will forgive their sins and I will no longer remember their wrongs. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord says, “My people are stupid; they don't know me. They are like foolish children; they have no understanding. They are experts at doing what is evil, but failures at doing what is good.”

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I thought, “These are only the poor and ignorant. They behave foolishly; they don't know what their God requires, what the Lord wants them to do.

Jeremiah 5:5

I will go to the people in power and talk with them. Surely they know what their God requires, what the Lord wants them to do.” But all of them have rejected the Lord's authority and refuse to obey him.

Jeremiah 6:28

They are all stubborn rebels, hard as bronze and iron. They are all corrupt, going around and spreading gossip.

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet no one listened or paid any attention. Instead, you became more stubborn and rebellious than your ancestors.

Jeremiah 9:5

They all mislead their friends, and no one tells the truth; they have taught their tongues to lie and will not give up their sinning. They do one violent thing after another, and one deceitful act follows another. The Lord says that his people reject him.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongues are like deadly arrows; they always tell lies. Everyone speaks friendly words to their neighbors, but they are really setting a trap for them.

Ezekiel 8:13

Then the Lord said to me, “You are going to see them do even more disgusting things than that.”

Daniel 11:27

Then the two kings will sit down to eat at the same table, but their motives will be evil, and they will lie to each other. They will not get what they want, because the time for it has not yet come.

Leviticus 19:11

“Do not steal or cheat or lie.

Mark 8:38

If you are ashamed of me and of my teaching in this godless and wicked day, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of you when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

John 17:3

And eternal life means to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

Acts 24:9

The Jews joined in the accusation and said that all this was true.

Romans 1:16

I have complete confidence in the gospel; it is God's power to save all who believe, first the Jews and also the Gentiles.

Romans 1:28

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.

Romans 3:13

Their words are full of deadly deceit; wicked lies roll off their tongues, and dangerous threats, like snake's poison, from their lips;

1 Corinthians 15:34

Come back to your right senses and stop your sinful ways. I declare to your shame that some of you do not know God.

Philippians 1:28

Don't be afraid of your enemies; always be courageous, and this will prove to them that they will lose and that you will win, because it is God who gives you the victory.

2 Timothy 3:13

and evil persons and impostors will keep on going from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves.

Jude 1:3

My dear friends, I was doing my best to write to you about the salvation we share in common, when I felt the need of writing at once to encourage you to fight on for the faith which once and for all God has given to his people.

Revelation 12:11

They won the victory over him by the blood of the Lamb and by the truth which they proclaimed; and they were willing to give up their lives and die.

Judges 14:17

She cried about it for the whole seven days of the feast. But on the seventh day he told her what the riddle meant, for she nagged him so about it. Then she told the Philistines.

Judges 2:10

That whole generation also died, and the next generation forgot the Lord and what he had done for Israel.

1 Samuel 2:12

The sons of Eli were scoundrels. They paid no attention to the Lord