Jeremiah 4:22

Modern King James Version

For My people are foolish; they have not known Me; they are stupid sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Cross References

Genesis 39:16

And she laid up his robe beside her until his lord came home.

2 Samuel 13:3

And Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of David's brother Shimeah. And Jonadab was a very crafty man.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

Psalm 36:4

He plots evil on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not hate evil.

Psalm 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? They eat up my people as they eat bread; they have not called on God.

Psalm 82:5

They neither know nor will understand; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand judgment; but those who seek Jehovah understand all things.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches are dried up, they shall be broken off; the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore His Maker will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will not favor them.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? Then you also may do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, Where is Jehovah? And they who handle the Law did not know Me; the shepherds also rebelled against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things not profitable.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long shall I see the banner and hear the sound of the ram's horn?

Jeremiah 5:21

Now hear this, O foolish people and without heart; who have eyes and see not; who have ears and hear not;

Jeremiah 5:4

So I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they do not know the way of Jehovah, nor the judgment of their God.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for traveling men, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they go from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 9:5

And everyone will deceive his neighbor and will not speak the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and they weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Ezekiel 16:30

How weak is your heart, says the Lord Jehovah, since you do all these, the work of a woman, an overbearing harlot;

Hosea 4:1

Hear the Word of Jehovah, sons of Israel. For Jehovah has a quarrel with the people of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.

Hosea 5:4

Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of fornication is in their midst, and they have not known Jehovah.

Amos 3:10

For they do not know to do right, says Jehovah, those who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are on evil, to do it well. The ruler asks for a bribe, and the judge also; and the great man speaks the evil desire of his soul. So they weave it together.

Luke 16:8

And the unjust steward's lord commended him because he had done wisely. For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

John 16:3

And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.

Romans 1:22

Professing to be wise, they became fools

Romans 1:28

And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,

Romans 16:19

For your obedience reached to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf, But I would have you truly wise as to good, and simple toward evil.

Romans 3:11

there is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God."

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, do not be children in your minds, but in malice be like infants, and in your minds be mature.

Deuteronomy 32:28

For they are a nation without wisdom, neither is there any understanding in them.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus give back to Jehovah, Oh foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?