Jeremiah 12:2

New Living Translation

You have planted them, and they have taken root and prospered. Your name is on their lips, but you are far from their hearts.

Cross References

Job 24:12

The groans of the dying rise from the city, and the wounded cry for help, yet God ignores their moaning.

Job 5:3

I have seen that fools may be successful for the moment, but then comes sudden disaster.

Psalm 37:35

I have seen wicked and ruthless people flourishing like a tree in its native soil.

Isaiah 29:13

And so the Lord says, “These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote.

Jeremiah 11:17

“I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, who planted this olive tree, have ordered it destroyed. For the people of Israel and Judah have done evil, arousing my anger by burning incense to Baal.”

Jeremiah 3:10

But despite all this, her faithless sister Judah has never sincerely returned to me. She has only pretended to be sorry. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

Jeremiah 45:4

“Baruch, this is what the Lord says: ‘I will destroy this nation that I built. I will uproot what I planted.

Ezekiel 33:31

So my people come pretending to be sincere and sit before you. They listen to your words, but they have no intention of doing what you say. Their mouths are full of lustful words, and their hearts seek only after money.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry out to me with sincere hearts. Instead, they sit on their couches and wail. They cut themselves, begging foreign gods for grain and new wine, and they turn away from me.

Habakkuk 1:13

But you are pure and cannot stand the sight of evil. Will you wink at their treachery? Should you be silent while the wicked swallow up people more righteous than they?

Matthew 15:8

‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Mark 7:6

Jesus replied, “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

Titus 1:16

Such people claim they know God, but they deny him by the way they live. They are detestable and disobedient, worthless for doing anything good.