Jeremiah 8:8

Lighthouse Bible 2006

How can you say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain he made it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

Cross References

Job 11:12

For vain man thinks himself wise, though man be born like a wild donkey’s colt.

Job 12:20

He takes away the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

Psalm 147:19

He reveals his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel.

Proverbs 17:6

Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, Come, and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Jeremiah 19:7

And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of those who seek their lives: and their carcasses will I give to be food for the birds of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me: the shepherds also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are stupid children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 48:14

How can you say, We are mighty and strong men for war?

Hosea 8:12

I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.

Matthew 15:6

And do not honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin: but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.

Romans 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,