Isaiah 8:20

New Century Version

You should follow the teachings and the agreement with the Lord. The mediums and fortune-tellers do not speak the word of the Lord, so their words are worth nothing.

Cross References

Ezra 10:3

Now let us make an agreement before our God. We will send away all these women and their children as you and those who respect the commands of our God advise. Let it be done to obey God’s Teachings.

Psalm 119:130

Learning your words gives wisdom and understanding for the foolish.

Psalm 78:5

The Lord made an agreement with Jacob and gave the teachings to Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children.

Proverbs 4:18

The way of the good person is like the light of dawn, growing brighter and brighter until full daylight.

Isaiah 1:10

Jerusalem, your rulers are like those of Sodom, and your people are like those of Gomorrah. Hear the word of the Lord; listen to the teaching of our God!

Isaiah 8:16

Make an agreement. Seal up the teaching while my followers are watching.

Isaiah 8:22

They will look around them at their land and see only trouble, darkness, and awful gloom. And they will be forced into the darkness.

Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the Lord says: “Stand where the roads cross and look. Ask where the old way is, where the good way is, and walk on it. If you do, you will find rest for yourselves. But they have said, ‘We will not walk on the good way.’

Jeremiah 8:9

These wise teachers refused to listen to the word of the Lord, so they are not really wise at all. They will be ashamed. They will be shocked and trapped.

Hosea 6:3

and know him. Let’s try to learn about the Lord; he will come to us as surely as the dawn comes. He will come to us like rain, like the spring rain that waters the ground.”

Micah 3:6

So it will become like night for them, without visions. It will become dark for them, without any way to tell the future. The sun is about to set for the prophets; their day will become dark.

Malachi 4:2

“But for you who honor me, goodness will shine on you like the sun, with healing in its rays. You will jump around, like well-fed calves.

Matthew 22:29

Jesus answered, “You don’t understand, because you don’t know what the Scriptures say, and you don’t know about the power of God.

Matthew 6:23

But if your eyes are evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. And if the only light you have is really darkness, then you have the worst darkness.

Mark 10:3

Jesus answered, “What did Moses command you to do?”

Luke 10:26

Jesus said, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”

John 5:39

You carefully study the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. They do in fact tell about me,

Acts 17:11

These people were more willing to listen than the people in Thessalonica. The Bereans were eager to hear what Paul and Silas said and studied the Scriptures every day to find out if these things were true.

Romans 1:22

They said they were wise, but they became fools.

2 Peter 1:19

This makes us more sure about the message the prophets gave. It is good for you to follow closely what they said as you would follow a light shining in a dark place, until the day begins and the morning star rises in your hearts.

2 Peter 1:9

But anyone who does not have these things cannot see clearly. He is blind and has forgotten that he was made clean from his past sins.