Jeremiah 8:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

How can you say, “We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us,” when, in fact, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie?

Cross References

Job 11:12

But the stupid will get understanding when a wild ass is born human.

Job 12:20

He deprives of speech those who are trusted and takes away the discernment of the elders.

Psalm 147:19

He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and ordinances to Israel.

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of children is their parents.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first ancestor sinned, and your mediators rebelled against me.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, “Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for instruction shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, let us bring charges against him, and let us not heed any of his words.”

Jeremiah 19:7

And in this place I will make void the plans of Judah and Jerusalem and will make them fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life. I will give their dead bodies for food to the birds of the air and to the wild animals of the earth.

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 4:22

“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.”

Jeremiah 48:14

How can you say, “We are heroes and mighty warriors”?

Hosea 8:12

Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions, they are regarded as a strange thing.

Matthew 15:6

So, for the sake of your tradition, you nullify the word of God.

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,