Jeremiah 6:16

Modern English Version

Thus says the Lord: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where the good way is and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”

Cross References

1 Kings 8:36

then may You hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel, that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk and give rain upon Your land which You have given to Your people as an inheritance.

2 Chronicles 19:11

“And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the Lord; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king’s matters; also, the Levites will be officials before you. Deal courageously, and the Lord will be with the good.”

Psalm 116:7

Return to your rest, O my soul, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

Isaiah 2:5

O house of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

Isaiah 28:12

He who said to them, “This is the rest. Give rest to the weary,” and, “This is repose,” yet they would not listen.

Isaiah 30:21

Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left.

Isaiah 46:9

Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me,

Isaiah 57:2

He shall enter into peace; they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Isaiah 8:20

To the law and to the testimony; if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Jeremiah 12:16

It shall come to pass if they will diligently learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, “As the Lord lives,” as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the midst of My people.

Jeremiah 18:12

But they say, “There is no hope! But we will walk after our own devices, and each of us will do according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.”

Jeremiah 18:15

Because My people have forgotten Me, they have burned incense to vain gods and they have stumbled in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, not on a highway,

Jeremiah 2:25

Withhold your foot from being unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, “There is no hope. No! For I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.”

Jeremiah 22:21

I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, “I will not listen!” This has been your manner from your youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.

Jeremiah 31:21

Set up road marks, place guideposts. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn back, O virgin of Israel, turn back to these your cities.

Jeremiah 42:3

Pray that the Lord your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing that we should do.”

Jeremiah 44:16

“As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

Jeremiah 50:5

They will ask for the way to Zion with their faces in its direction. They will come that they may join themselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that will not be forgotten.

Jeremiah 7:23

But this thing I commanded them, saying, “Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.”

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not listen, nor incline their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.

Jeremiah 7:3

Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

Malachi 4:4

Remember the Law of Moses, My servant, the statutes and judgments which I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

Luke 16:29

“Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets. Let them hear them.’

John 12:35

Then Jesus said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. He who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.

John 13:17

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

John 5:39

You search the Scriptures, because you think in them you have eternal life. These are they who bear witness of Me.

Acts 17:11

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, daily examining the Scriptures, to find out if these things were so.

Romans 4:12

and the father of circumcision to those who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham, which he had while still being uncircumcised.

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the days of old, consider the years of previous generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you:

Colossians 2:6

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

Hebrews 11:2

For by it the men of old obtained a good report.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not be lazy, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Judges 2:17

Yet they would not listen to their judges, for they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshipped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord. They did not do as their fathers had done.