Jeremiah 9:5

New International Reader's Version

One friend cheats another. No one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues how to lie. They wear themselves out sinning.

Cross References

Genesis 19:11

Then they made the men who were at the door of the house blind. They blinded both young and old men so that they couldn’t find the door.

Job 11:3

Your useless talk won’t keep us quiet. Someone has to correct you when you make fun of truth.

Job 15:5

Your sin makes you say evil things. You talk like people who twist the truth.

Psalm 140:3

Their tongues are as deadly as the tongue of a serpent. The words from their lips are like the poison of a snake.

Psalm 50:19

You use your mouth to speak evil. You use your tongue to spread lies.

Psalm 52:3

You love evil instead of good. You would rather lie than tell the truth.

Psalm 64:3

They make their tongues like sharp swords. They aim their mean words like deadly arrows.

Psalm 7:14

Whoever is full of evil plans trouble and ends up telling lies.

Proverbs 12:5

The plans of godly people are right. But the advice of sinners will lead you the wrong way.

Proverbs 4:16

Sinners can’t rest until they do what is evil. They can’t sleep until they make someone sin.

Isaiah 5:18

How terrible it will be for those who continue to sin and lie about it! How terrible for those who keep on doing what is evil as if they were tied to it!

Isaiah 57:10

You wore yourself out with all your efforts. But you would not say, ‘It’s hopeless.’ You received new strength. So you did not give up.

Jeremiah 12:13

People will plant wheat. But all they will gather is thorns. They will wear themselves out. But they will not have anything to show for it. I am very angry with them. So they will be ashamed of the crop they gather.”

Jeremiah 12:6

Even your relatives have turned against you. They are members of your own family. They have shouted loudly at you. They might say nice things about you. But do not trust them.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can people from Ethiopia change their skin? Can leopards change their spots? It’s the same with you. You have always done what is evil. So how can you do what is good?

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord says, “My people are foolish. They do not know me. They are children who do not have any sense. They have no understanding at all. They are skilled in doing what is evil. They do not know how to do what is good.”

Jeremiah 51:58

The Lord who rules over all says, “Babylon’s thick walls will fall down flat. Its high gates will be set on fire. The nations wear themselves out for no reason at all. Their hard work will only be burned up in the flames.”

Jeremiah 51:64

Then say, ‘In the same way, Babylon will sink down. It will never rise again. That is because I will bring such horrible trouble on it. And its people will fall along with it.’ ” The words of Jeremiah end here.

Jeremiah 7:28

So say to them, ‘You are a nation that has not obeyed the Lord your God. You did not pay attention when you were corrected. Truth has died out. You do not tell the truth anymore.’ ”

Jeremiah 9:3

“They get ready to use their tongues like bows,” announces the Lord. “Their mouths shoot out lies like arrows. They tell lies to gain power in the land. They go from one sin to another. They do not pay any attention to me.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They tell lies. With their mouths all of them speak kindly to their neighbors. But in their hearts they set traps for them.

Ezekiel 24:12

But it can’t be cleaned up. Its thick scum has not been removed. Even fire can’t burn it off.

Micah 6:12

The rich people among you harm others. You are always telling lies. You try to fool others by what you say.

Micah 6:3

The Lord says, “My people, what have I done to you? Have I made things too hard for you? Answer me.

Habakkuk 2:13

I am the Lord who rules over all. Human effort is no better than wood that feeds a fire. So the nations wear themselves out for nothing.

Malachi 2:10

People of Judah, all of us have one Father. One God created us. So why do we break the covenant the Lord made with our people of long ago? We do this by being unfaithful to one another.

Ephesians 4:25

So each of you must get rid of your lying. Speak the truth to your neighbor. We are all parts of one body.

1 Timothy 4:2

Teachings like those come from liars who pretend to be what they are not. Their sense of what is right and wrong has been destroyed. It’s as though it has been burned with a hot iron.

Judges 2:10

All the people of Joshua’s time joined the members of their families who had already died. Then those who were born after them grew up. They didn’t know the Lord and what he had done for Israel.