Jeremiah 8:5

Modern English Version

Why then is this people of Jerusalem turned away by a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

Cross References

Proverbs 4:13

Take hold of instruction; do not let her go; guard 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

they say to the seers, “You must not see visions,” and to the prophets, “You must not prophesy to us right things; speak to us pleasant things, prophesy illusions.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside so that he cannot deliver his soul, or 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. Indeed, our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 2:32

Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

Jeremiah 3:5

Shall He reserve His anger forever? Shall He keep it to the end?” Behold, you have spoken, but you have 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 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 will slay them, and a wolf from the deserts will destroy them; a leopard will watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings have increased.

Jeremiah 6:17

Also I set watchmen over you, saying, “Listen to the sound of the trumpet.” But they said, “We will not listen.”

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth. Behold, I will bring calamity on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to 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

Indeed, all Israel has transgressed Your law, even by departing that they might not obey Your voice. “Therefore the curse has been 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 will return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria will be his king, because they refused to return to Me.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they called to the Most High, none at all exalt Him.

Hosea 13:2

And now they continue sinning and have made a cast image for themselves, idols of their silver, according to their understanding; all of them the work of craftsmen. They say of them, “Those who sacrifice are kissing calves!”

Hosea 4:16

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn. Now will the Lord feed them like a lamb in a wide pasture?

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears so that they should not hear.

John 5:40

Yet you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Examine all things. Firmly hold onto what is good.

Hebrews 12:25

See that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if they did not escape when they refused Him who spoke on earth, much less shall we escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven.

Revelation 2:25

But hold firmly what you have until I come.