Jeremiah 4:22

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“For my people are foolish, they do not know me; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but do not know how to do good.”

Cross References

Genesis 39:16

Then she kept his garment by her until his master came home,

2 Samuel 13:3

But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of David's brother Shimeah; and Jonadab was a very crafty man.

Psalm 36:3

The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit; they have ceased to act wisely and do good.

Psalm 36:4

They plot mischief while on their beds; they are set on a way that is not good; they do not reject evil.

Psalm 53:4

Have they no knowledge, those evildoers, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?

Psalm 82:5

They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk around in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Proverbs 28:5

The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without understanding; therefore he that made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction given by idols is no better than wood!

Jeremiah 13:23

Can Ethiopians change their skin or leopards their spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, “Where is the Lord?” Those who handle the law did not know me; the rulers transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 4:21

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

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but do not see, who have ears, but do not hear.

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, “These are only the poor, they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.

Jeremiah 9:2

O that I had in the desert a traveler's lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongues like bows; they have grown strong in the land for falsehood, and not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

They all deceive their neighbors, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongues to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.

Ezekiel 16:30

How sick is your heart, says the Lord God, that you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen whore;

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel; for the Lord has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty, and no knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they do not know the Lord.

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.

Micah 2:1

Alas for those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.

Luke 16:8

And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.

John 16:3

And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools;

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.

Romans 16:19

For while your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, I want you to be wise in what is good and guileless in what is evil.

Romans 3:11

there is no one who has understanding, there is no one who seeks God.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; rather, be infants in evil, but in thinking be adults.

Deuteronomy 32:28

They are a nation void of sense; there is no understanding in them.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus repay the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?