Jeremiah 13:23

New American Bible - revised edition

Can Ethiopians change their skin, leopards their spots? As easily would you be able to do good, accustomed to evil as you are.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:40

But they did not listen; they continued to act according to their former customs.

Proverbs 27:22

Though you pound fools with a pestle, their folly never leaves them.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

What is crooked cannot be made straight, and you cannot count what is not there.

Isaiah 1:5

Why would you yet be struck, that you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, the whole heart faint.

Jeremiah 17:9

More tortuous than anything is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it?

Jeremiah 2:22

Even if you scour it with lye, and use much soap, The stain of your guilt is still before me, oracle of the Lord God.

Jeremiah 2:30

In vain I struck your children; correction they did not take. Your sword devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

Jeremiah 4:22

My people are fools, they do not know me; They are senseless children, without understanding; They are wise at evil, but they do not know how to do good.

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

Jeremiah 9:5

Violence upon violence, deceit upon deceit: They refuse to know me— oracle of the Lord.

1 Samuel 19:21

Informed of this, Saul sent other messengers, who also fell into the prophetic ecstasy. For the third time Saul sent messengers, but they too fell into a prophetic ecstasy. Saul Among the Prophets.