Jeremiah 12:2

Modern English Version

You have planted them; indeed, they have taken root; they grow; indeed, they bring forth fruit. You are near in their mouth, but far from their mind.

Cross References

Job 24:12

Men groan from outside the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out; yet God does not charge them with wrong.

Job 5:3

Yes, I saw the foolish taking root, and quickly I cursed his dwelling.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a luxuriant tree.

Isaiah 29:13

Therefore, the Lord said: Because this people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but have removed their hearts far from Me, and their fear toward Me is tradition by the precept of men,

Jeremiah 11:17

For the Lord of Hosts, who planted you, has pronounced disaster against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense to Baal.

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet for all this, her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but feignedly, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 45:4

Thus you shall say to him, “Thus says the Lord: Behold, what I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.

Ezekiel 33:31

They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them. They do the lustful desires in their mouth, and their heart goes after their covetousness.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry to Me with their heart when they howl on their beds. They gather together for grain and wine, they rebel against Me.

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil, and You cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours the man who is more righteous than he?

Matthew 15:8

‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

Mark 7:6

He answered, “Isaiah has prophesied well about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

Titus 1:16

They profess that they know God, but in their deeds they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and worthless for every good work.