Jeremiah 8:8

New King James Version

“How can you say, ‘We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us’? Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.

Cross References

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

Romans 1:22

Professing to be wise, they became fools,

Matthew 15:6

then he need not honor his father or mother.’ Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

Psalm 147:19

He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

Job 12:20

He deprives the trusted ones of speech, And takes away the discernment of the elders.

Hosea 8:12

I have written for him the great things of My law, But they were considered a strange thing.

Proverbs 17:6

Children’s children are the crown of old men, And the glory of children is their father.

Job 11:12

For an empty-headed man will be wise, When a wild donkey’s colt is born a man.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, They have not known Me. They are silly children, And they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, But to do good they have no knowledge.”

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”

Jeremiah 19:7

And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hands of those who seek their lives; their corpses I will give as meat for the birds of the heaven and for the beasts of the earth.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned, And your mediators have transgressed against Me.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’ And those who handle the law did not know Me; The rulers also transgressed against Me; The prophets prophesied by Baal, And walked after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 48:14

“How can you say, ‘We are mighty And strong men for the war’?