Jeremiah 8:5

New King James Version

Why has this people slidden back, Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit, They refuse to return.

Cross References

Proverbs 4:13

Take firm hold of instruction, do not let go; Keep her, for she is your life.

Isaiah 1:20

But if you refuse and rebel, You shall be devoured by the sword”; For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 30:10

Who say to the seers, “Do not see,” And to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes; A deceived heart has turned him aside; And he cannot deliver his soul, Nor say, “Is there not a lie in my right hand?”

Jeremiah 14:7

O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, Do it for Your name’s sake; For our backslidings are many, We have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 2:32

Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.

Jeremiah 3:5

Will He remain angry forever? Will He keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and done evil things, As you were able.”

Jeremiah 5:27

As a cage is full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, But they have not grieved; You have consumed them, But they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to return.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, A wolf of the deserts shall destroy them; A leopard will watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, Because their transgressions are many; Their backslidings have increased.

Jeremiah 6:17

Also, I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen.’

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth! Behold, I will certainly bring calamity on this people— The fruit of their thoughts, Because they have not heeded My words Nor My law, but rejected it.

Jeremiah 9:6

Your dwelling place is in the midst of deceit; Through deceit they refuse to know Me,” says the Lord.

Daniel 9:11

Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.

Hosea 11:5

“He shall not return to the land of Egypt; But the Assyrian shall be his king, Because they refused to repent.

Hosea 11:7

My people are bent on backsliding from Me. Though they call to the Most High, None at all exalt Him.

Hosea 13:2

Now they sin more and more, And have made for themselves molded images, Idols of their silver, according to their skill; All of it is the work of craftsmen. They say of them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!”

Hosea 4:16

“For Israel is stubborn Like a stubborn calf; Now the Lord will let them forage Like a lamb in open country.

Zechariah 7:11

“But they refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears so that they could not hear.

John 5:40

But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Test all things; hold fast what is good.

Hebrews 12:25

See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven,

Revelation 2:25

But hold fast what you have till I come.