Jeremiah 6:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Thus says the Lord: Stand at the crossroads and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, “We will not walk in it.”

Cross References

1 Kings 8:36

then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain on your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

2 Chronicles 19:11

See, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the Lord; and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters; and the Levites will serve you as officers. Deal courageously, and may the Lord be with the good!”

Psalm 116:7

Return, O my soul, to your rest, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you.

Isaiah 2:5

O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!

Isaiah 28:12

to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary, and this is repose,” yet they would not hear.

Isaiah 30:21

And when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”

Isaiah 46:9

remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me,

Isaiah 57:2

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace and rest on their couches.

Isaiah 8:20

for teaching and for instruction?” surely those who speak like this will have no dawn!

Jeremiah 12:16

And then, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, “As the Lord lives,” as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of my people.

Jeremiah 18:12

But they say, “It is no use! We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of our evil will.”

Jeremiah 18:15

But my people have forgotten me; they burn offerings to a delusion; they have stumbled in their ways, in the ancient roads, and have gone into bypaths, not the highway,

Jeremiah 2:25

Keep your feet from going bare and your throat from thirst. But you said, “It is no use, for I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.”

Jeremiah 22:21

I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, “I will not listen.” This has been your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed my voice.

Jeremiah 31:21

Set up road markers for yourself; make yourself signposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin Israel, return to these your cities.

Jeremiah 42:3

Let the Lord your God show us where we should go and what we should do.”

Jeremiah 44:16

“As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you.

Jeremiah 50:5

They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, and they shall come and join themselves to the Lord by an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

Jeremiah 7:23

But this command I gave them, “Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; walk only in the way that I command you, so that it may be well with you.”

Jeremiah 7:24

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels and looked backward rather than forward.

Jeremiah 7:3

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Amend your ways and your doings, and let me dwell with you in this place.

Malachi 4:4

Remember the teaching of my servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

Luke 16:29

Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’

John 12:35

Jesus said to them, “The light is in you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going.

John 13:17

If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

John 5:39

“You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life, and it is they that testify on my behalf.

Acts 17:11

These Jews were more receptive than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message very eagerly and examined the scriptures every day to see whether these things were so.

Romans 4:12

and likewise the ancestor of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but follow the example of the faith that our ancestor Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the days of old; consider the years long past; ask your father, and he will inform you, your elders, and they will tell you.

Colossians 2:6

As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, continue to walk in him,

Hebrews 11:2

Indeed, by faith our ancestors received approval.

Hebrews 6:12

so that you may not become sluggish but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Judges 2:17

Yet they did not listen even to their judges, for they lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their ancestors had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord; they did not follow their example.