Jeremiah 13:23

New Living Translation

Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard take away its spots? Neither can you start doing good, for you have always done evil.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:40

But the people would not listen and continued to follow their former practices.

Proverbs 27:22

You cannot separate fools from their foolishness, even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

What is wrong cannot be made right. What is missing cannot be recovered.

Isaiah 1:5

Why do you continue to invite punishment? Must you rebel forever? Your head is injured, and your heart is sick.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?

Jeremiah 2:22

No amount of soap or lye can make you clean. I still see the stain of your guilt. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!

Jeremiah 2:30

“I have punished your children, but they did not respond to my discipline. You yourselves have killed your prophets as a lion kills its prey.

Jeremiah 4:22

“My people are foolish and do not know me,” says the Lord. “They are stupid children who have no understanding. They are clever enough at doing wrong, but they have no idea how to do right!”

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, you are searching for honesty. You struck your people, but they paid no attention. You crushed them, but they refused to be corrected. They are determined, with faces set like stone; they have refused to repent.

Jeremiah 9:5

They all fool and defraud each other; no one tells the truth. With practiced tongues they tell lies; they wear themselves out with all their sinning.

1 Samuel 19:21

When Saul heard what had happened, he sent other troops, but they, too, prophesied! The same thing happened a third time.