Jeremiah 8:5

Modern King James Version

Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a never-ending backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.

Cross References

Proverbs 4:13

Take fast hold of instruction; do not let go; keep 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 Jehovah has spoken.

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy falsehood;

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

Jeremiah 14:7

O Jehovah, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake; for 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 days without number.

Jeremiah 3:5

Will He keep His anger forever? Will He keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done all the evil things you could do.

Jeremiah 5:27

Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and grown rich.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Jehovah, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; You have destroyed them, but they have refused to receive correction; they have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to return.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion out of the forest shall kill them, and a wolf of the deserts shall rob them; a leopard shall watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from them shall be torn in pieces, because their sins are many and their backslidings are multiplied.

Jeremiah 6:17

Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the ram's horn. But they said, We will not listen.

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth; behold, I will bring evil on this people, the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to My Words, nor to My Law, but have rejected it.

Jeremiah 9:6

Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know Me, says Jehovah.

Daniel 9:11

Yea, all Israel has transgressed Your Law, and turned aside, that they might not obey Your voice. Therefore the curse has been poured out on 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 shall not return to the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

Hosea 11:7

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

Hosea 13:2

And now they sin more and more, and have made themselves a molten image of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves.

Hosea 4:16

For Israel slides back like a backsliding heifer. Now Jehovah will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to listen, and gave a stubborn shoulder, and made heavy their ears from hearing.

John 5:40

and you will not come to Me that you might have life.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Prove all things, hold fast to the good.

Hebrews 12:25

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape, those who refused him that spoke on earth, much more we shall not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from Heaven,

Revelation 2:25

But that which you have, hold fast until I come.