Jeremiah 8:5

King James 2000

Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Cross References

Proverbs 4:13

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.

Isaiah 1:20

But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.

Isaiah 30:10

Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Jeremiah 14:7

O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for your name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 2:32

Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

Jeremiah 3:5

Will he reserve his anger forever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done all the evil things that you could.

Jeremiah 5:27

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grown rich.

Jeremiah 5:3

O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the desert shall destroy them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

Jeremiah 6:17

Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

Jeremiah 9:6

Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

Daniel 9:11

Yea, all Israel have transgressed your law, even by departing, that they might not obey your voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

Hosea 11:5

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

Hosea 11:7

And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

Hosea 13:2

And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

Hosea 4:16

For Israel slides back like a stubborn heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in an open pasture.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to hearken, and shrugged the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

John 5:40

And you will not come to me, that you might have life.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Test all things; hold fast that which is good.

Hebrews 12:25

See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:

Revelation 2:25

But that which you have already hold fast till I come.