Jeremiah 13:23

New International Version

Can an Ethiopian change his skin or a leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:40

They would not listen, however, but persisted in their former practices.

Proverbs 27:22

Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding them like grain with a pestle, you will not remove their folly from them.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted.

Isaiah 1:5

Why should you be beaten anymore? Why do you persist in rebellion? Your whole head is injured, your whole heart afflicted.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Jeremiah 2:22

Although you wash yourself with soap and use an abundance of cleansing powder, the stain of your guilt is still before me,” declares the Sovereign Lord.

Jeremiah 2:30

“In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravenous lion.

Jeremiah 4:22

“My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, do not your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; you crushed them, but they refused correction. They made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Jeremiah 9:5

Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.

1 Samuel 19:21

Saul was told about it, and he sent more men, and they prophesied too. Saul sent men a third time, and they also prophesied.