Jeremiah 34:16

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

But now you have changed your minds. You have shown that you do not honor my name because each of you has taken back the male and female slaves that you had set free. You have forced them to become slaves again.’

Cross References

Leviticus 19:12

You must not use my name to make false promises. If you do that, you will show that you don’t respect the name of your God. I am the Lord!

Ezekiel 18:24

“Now, maybe good people might stop being good. They might change their lives and begin to do all the terrible things that evil people have done in the past. (The evil people changed, so they can live.) So if those good people change and become bad, God will not remember all the good things they did. He will remember that they turned against him and began to sin. So they will die because of their sin.

Ezekiel 3:20

“If good people stop being good and begin to do evil, and I send something that makes them stumble and sin, they will die because they sinned. But since you did not warn them and remind them of the good things they had done, I will make you responsible for their death.

Jeremiah 34:11

But after that, the people who had slaves changed their minds. So they took the people they had set free and made them slaves again.

Exodus 20:7

“You must not use the name of the Lord your God to make empty promises. If you do, the Lord will not let you go unpunished.

1 Samuel 15:11

“Saul has stopped following me, so I am sorry that I made him king. He is not doing what I tell him.” Samuel became angry and cried to the Lord all night.

Malachi 1:12

“But you people show that you don’t respect my name. You say that the Lord’s altar is unclean. And you don’t like the food from that altar.

Malachi 1:7

“You bring unclean bread to my altar. “But you ask, ‘What makes that bread unclean?’ “It is unclean because you show no respect for the altar of the Lord.

Ezekiel 39:7

And I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I will not let people ruin my holy name anymore. The nations will know that I am the Lord. They will know that I am the Holy One in Israel.

Ezekiel 20:39

Now, family of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: “Whoever wants to worship their filthy idols, let them go and worship them. But later, don’t think you will get any advice from me. You will not ruin my name anymore—not when you continue to give your gifts to your filthy idols!”

Ezekiel 13:22

“‘You prophets tell lies. Your lies hurt good people—I did not want to hurt them! You support the wicked and encourage them. You don’t tell them to change their lives. You don’t try to save their lives!