Jeremiah 4:22

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, stop being childish in your thinking. In respect to evil be like infants, but in your thinking be mature.

Romans 16:19

For while your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, I want you to be wise as to what is good, and simple as to what is evil;

Jeremiah 5:21

Pay attention to this, you foolish and senseless people, Who have eyes and do not see, who have ears and do not hear.

Romans 3:11

there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

Hosea 4:6

My people are ruined for lack of knowledge! Since you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from serving as my priest; Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Romans 1:22

While claiming to be wise, they became fools

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God; For the spirit of prostitution is in them, and they do not know the Lord.

John 16:3

They will do this because they have not known either the Father or me.

Micah 2:1

Ah! you plotters of iniquity, who work out evil on your beds! In the morning light you carry it out for it lies within your power.

Deuteronomy 32:28

For they are a nation devoid of reason, having no understanding.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.

Jeremiah 13:23

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

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs wither, they shall be broken off; and women shall come to kindle fires with them. For this is not an understanding people; therefore their maker shall not spare them; their creator shall not be gracious to them.

Jeremiah 10:8

One and all they are stupid and senseless, the instruction from nonentities—only wood!

Isaiah 1:3

An ox knows its owner, and an ass, its master’s manger; But Israel does not know, my people has not understood.

Jeremiah 5:4

I thought: These are only the lowly, they behave foolishly; For they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.

Luke 16:8

And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently. Application of the Parable. “For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, Israelites, for the Lord has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land: There is no fidelity, no loyalty, no knowledge of God in the land.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this how you repay the Lord, so foolish and unwise a people? Is he not your father who begot you, the one who made and established you?

2 Samuel 13:3

Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, son of David’s brother Shimeah, who was very clever.

Psalm 36:3

For he lives with the delusion: his guilt will not be known and hated.

Psalm 53:4

All have gone astray; each one is altogether perverse. There is not one who does what is good, not even one.

Psalm 82:5

The gods neither know nor understand, wandering about in darkness, and all the world’s foundations shake.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, “Where is the Lord?” The experts in the law did not know me: the shepherds rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after useless idols.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the signal, hear the blast of the horn!

Jeremiah 9:3

Be on your guard, everyone against his neighbor; put no trust in any brother. Every brother imitates Jacob, the supplanter, every neighbor is guilty of slander.

Ezekiel 16:30

How wild your lust!—oracle of the Lord God—that you did all these works of a shameless prostitute,

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do what is right— oracle of the Lord— Storing up in their strongholds violence and destruction.

Genesis 39:16

She kept the cloak with her until his master came home.

Psalm 36:4

Empty and false are the words of his mouth; he has ceased to be wise and do good.

Proverbs 28:5

The evil understand nothing of justice, but those who seek the Lord understand everything.

Jeremiah 9:2

They ready their tongues like a drawn bow; with lying, and not with truth, they are powerful in the land. They go from evil to evil, and me they do not know—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

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

Micah 7:3

Their hands succeed at evil; the prince makes demands, The judge is bought for a price, the powerful speak as they please.