Jeremiah 2:23

New International Reader's Version

“You say, ‘I am “clean.” I haven’t followed the gods that are named Baal.’ How can you say that? Remember how you acted in the valley. Consider what you have done. You are like a female camel running quickly here and there.

Cross References

Esther 8:16

The Jews were filled with joy and happiness. They were very glad because now they were being honored.

Psalm 36:2

They praise themselves so much that they can’t see their sin or hate it.

Psalm 50:21

When you did these things, I kept silent. So you thought I was just like you. But now I’m going to bring you to court. I will bring charges against you.

Proverbs 28:13

Anyone who hides their sins doesn’t succeed. But anyone who admits their sins and gives them up finds mercy.

Proverbs 30:12

Some are pure in their own eyes. But their dirty sins haven’t been washed away.

Proverbs 30:20

“This is the way of a woman who commits adultery. She eats and wipes her mouth. Then she says, ‘I haven’t done anything wrong.’

Jeremiah 14:10

The Lord gave Jeremiah a message about these people. The Lord said, “They really love to wander away from me. Their feet go down the wrong path. I do not accept these people. I will remember the evil things they have done. I will punish them for their sins.”

Jeremiah 16:10

“Tell these people all these things. They will ask you, ‘Why has the Lord decided to send so much trouble on us? We haven’t done anything wrong. We haven’t committed any sins against the Lord our God.’

Jeremiah 2:36

Why do you keep on changing your ways so much? Assyria did not help you. And Egypt will not help you either.

Jeremiah 3:2

“Look up at the bare hilltops. Is there any place where you have not worshiped other gods? You have been unfaithful to me like a wife committing adultery. By the side of the road you sat waiting for lovers. You sat there like someone who wanders in the desert. You have made the land impure. You are like a sinful prostitute.

Jeremiah 31:22

How long will you wander, my people Israel, who are not faithful to me? I will create a new thing on earth. The woman will return to the man.”

Jeremiah 7:31

The people have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom. There they worship other gods. And there they sacrifice their children in the fire. That is something I did not command. It did not even enter my mind.

Jeremiah 9:14

Instead, they have done what their stubborn hearts wanted them to do. They have worshiped the gods that are named Baal. They have done what their people have taught them to do through the years.”

Hosea 1:2

The Lord began to speak through Hosea. He said to him, “Go. Marry a woman who has sex with anyone she wants. Have children with her. Do this because the people of the land are like that kind of wife. They have not been faithful to me.”

Luke 10:29

But the man wanted to make himself look good. So he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Romans 3:19

What the law says, it says to those who are ruled by the law. Its purpose is to shut every mouth and make the whole world accountable to God.