Jeremiah 4:22

New International Version

“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.”

Cross References

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be adults.

Romans 16:19

Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice because of you; but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but 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 destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.

Romans 1:22

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

Hosea 5:4

“Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the Lord.

John 16:3

They will do such things because they have not known the Father or me.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.

Deuteronomy 32:28

They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.

Romans 1:28

Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

Jeremiah 13:23

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

Isaiah 27:11

When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.”

Jeremiah 5:4

I thought, “These are only the poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the Lord, the requirements of their God.

Luke 16:8

“The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites, because the Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: “There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?

2 Samuel 13:3

Now Amnon had an adviser named Jonadab son of Shimeah, David’s brother. Jonadab was a very shrewd man.

Psalm 36:3

The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful; they fail to act wisely or do good.

Psalm 53:4

Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread; they never call on God.

Psalm 82:5

“The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who deal with the law did not know me; the leaders rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, following worthless idols.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the battle standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 9:3

“They make ready their tongue like a bow, to shoot lies; it is not by truth that they triumph in the land. They go from one sin to another; they do not acknowledge me,” declares the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:30

“ ‘I am filled with fury against you, declares the Sovereign Lord, when you do all these things, acting like a brazen prostitute!

Amos 3:10

“They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord, “who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted.”

Genesis 39:16

She kept his cloak beside her until his master came home.

Psalm 36:4

Even on their beds they plot evil; they commit themselves to a sinful course and do not reject what is wrong.

Proverbs 28:5

Evildoers do not understand what is right, but those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people.

Jeremiah 9:5

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

Micah 7:3

Both hands are skilled in doing evil; the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, the powerful dictate what they desire— they all conspire together.