Jeremiah 22:17

Modern English Version

But your eyes and your heart are intent only on your covetousness and on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and violence.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:19

You shall speak to him, saying, “Thus says the Lord: Have you killed and also taken possession?” And you shall speak to him, saying, “Thus says the Lord: In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your own blood!”

2 Kings 23:37

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood that he had shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to pardon.

2 Chronicles 36:8

And the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the detestable things that he did and were found against him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah. Then Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

Job 31:7

If my step has turned out of the path, and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boasts of his soul’s desire, and blesses the greedy and despises the Lord.

Exodus 18:21

Moreover, you shall choose out of all the people capable men who fear God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and place these men over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Proverbs 24:2

for their heart devises violence, and their lips talk of trouble.

Isaiah 56:11

They are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds who cannot understand; they all turn to their own way, every one for his gain, from his territory.

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge sits on eggs which it has not laid, so is he who gets riches, but not justly; it will forsake him in the midst of his days, and in the end he will be a fool.

Jeremiah 19:4

Because they have forsaken Me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocent,

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver the robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong or violence to the stranger, the fatherless, or the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 6:13

For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, everyone is given to covetousness. And from the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.

Jeremiah 6:6

For thus says the Lord of Hosts: Hew down trees and build a mound against Jerusalem. This is the city to be punished. She is full of oppression in her midst.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other gods to your harm,

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.

Ezekiel 18:12

has oppressed the poor and needy, has devastated by violence, has not restored the pledge, and has lifted up his eyes to the idols, has committed abomination,

Ezekiel 19:6

He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

Ezekiel 19:7

He destroyed their fortified palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land and its fullness were appalled by the noise of his roaring.

Ezekiel 19:9

They put him in a cage with hooks and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him in hunting nets, so that his voice would be heard no more on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 22:6

Behold, the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.

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.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them. They defraud a man of his house, and a fellow man of his inheritance.

Micah 3:10

who build Zion with bloodguilt and Jerusalem with wickedness.

Zephaniah 3:3

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves who leave nothing until the morning.

Romans 1:29

They were filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and craftiness. They are gossips,

1 Corinthians 6:10

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death the parts of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Joshua 7:21

When I saw among the plundered goods a beautiful robe from Babylon, two hundred shekels of silver, and a gold bar weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground in my tent. The silver is underneath them.”

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin. They entice unstable souls. Their hearts are trained in greed. They are cursed children!

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their judgment, made long ago, does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.

1 Samuel 8:3

But his sons did not walk in his way, for they followed after unlawful gain, and they took bribes, and they perverted justice.