Jeremiah 9:3

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“They use their tongues like a bow; lies fly from their mouths like arrows. Lies, not truth, have grown strong in this land. They go from one sin to another. They don’t know me.” This is what the Lord said.

Cross References

Jeremiah 9:8

The people of Judah have tongues as sharp as arrows. Their mouths speak lies. They all speak kindly to their neighbors, but they are secretly planning ways to attack them.

Romans 3:13

“Their words come from mouths that are like open graves. They use their lying tongues to deceive others.” Psalm 5:9 “Their words are like the poison of snakes.” Psalm 140:3

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord said, “My people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are stupid children. They don’t understand. They are skillful at doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Judges 2:10

After that whole generation died, the next generation grew up. This new generation did not know about the Lord or what he had done for the Israelites.

Jeremiah 31:34

People will not have to teach their neighbors and relatives to know the Lord, because all people, from the least important to the most important, will know me.” This message is from the Lord. “I will forgive them for the evil things they did. I will not remember their sins.”

1 Samuel 2:12

Eli’s sons were evil men who did not care about the Lord.

Revelation 12:11

They defeated him by the blood sacrifice of the Lamb and by the message of God that they told people. They did not love their lives too much. They were not afraid of death.

Jude 1:3

Dear friends, I wanted very much to write to you about the salvation we all share together. But I felt the need to write to you about something else: I want to encourage you to fight hard for the faith that God gave his holy people. God gave this faith once, and it is good for all time.

2 Timothy 3:13

People who are evil and cheat others will become worse and worse. They will fool others, but they will also be fooling themselves.

Philippians 1:28

And you will not be afraid of those who are against you. All of this is proof from God that you are being saved and that your enemies will be lost.

Romans 1:28

People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking. And so they do what they should not do.

Romans 1:16

I am proud of the Good News, because it is the power God uses to save everyone who believes—to save the Jews first, and now to save those who are not Jews.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life: that people can know you, the only true God, and that they can know Jesus Christ, the one you sent.

Mark 8:38

People today are so sinful. They have not been faithful to God. As you live among them, don’t be ashamed of me and my teaching. If that happens, I will be ashamed of you when I come with the glory of my Father and the holy angels.”

Jeremiah 22:16

Josiah helped poor and needy people, so everything went well for him. Jehoiakim, what does it mean “to know God”? It means living right and being fair. That is what it means to know me. This message is from the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

Everyone lies to their neighbor. No one speaks the truth. The people of Judah have taught their tongues to lie. They sinned until they were too tired to come back.

Jeremiah 7:26

But your ancestors did not listen to me. They did not pay attention to me. They were very stubborn and did evil even worse than their fathers did.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Come back to your right way of thinking and stop sinning. Some of you don’t know God. I say this to shame you.

Leviticus 19:11

“You must not steal. You must not cheat people. You must not lie to each other.

Isaiah 1:3

A bull knows its master, and a donkey knows where its owner feeds it. But Israel does not know me. My people do not understand.”

Isaiah 3:5

The people will turn against each other. Young people will not respect those who are older. The common people will not respect important leaders.”

Isaiah 6:5

I was frightened and said, “Oh, no! I will be destroyed. I am not pure enough to speak to God, and I live among people who are not pure enough to speak to him. But I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”

Jeremiah 5:4

But I said to myself, “It must be only the poor who are so foolish. They have not learned the way of the Lord. They don’t know the teachings of their God.

Jeremiah 5:5

So I will go to the leaders of Judah. I will talk to them. Surely the leaders know the way of the Lord. Surely they know the law of their God.” But the leaders had all joined together to break away from serving God.

Daniel 11:27

Those two kings will want to make trouble. They will sit around the table planning their lies, but it will not do either one of them any good because God has set a time for their end to come.

Genesis 39:16

Then she kept his coat until her husband, Joseph’s master, came home.

Judges 14:17

Samson’s wife cried for the rest of the seven days of the party. So he finally gave her the answer to the riddle on the seventh day. He told her because she kept bothering him. Then she went to her people and told them the answer to the riddle.

Proverbs 12:5

Good people are honest and fair in all they do, but those who are evil lie and cannot be trusted.

Isaiah 9:18

That evil was like a small fire that started among the weeds and thorns and then spread to the larger bushes in the forest. Finally, it became a giant fire, and everything went up in smoke.

Jeremiah 6:28

My people have turned against me, and they are very stubborn. They say bad things about people. They are like bronze and iron that are covered with rust and tarnish.

Jeremiah 12:6

These men are your own brothers. Members of your own family are making plans against you. People from your own family are shouting at you. Don’t trust them, even when they speak to you like friends.

Ezekiel 8:13

Then he said to me, “If you come with me, you will see these men doing even more terrible things!”

Acts 24:9

The other Jews agreed and said it was all true.