Jeremiah 9:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Genesis 39:16

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

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous.

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 3:5

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another and everyone by a neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder and the base to the honorable.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burned like a fire, consuming briers and thorns; it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.

Jeremiah 12:6

For even your kinsfolk and your own family, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.

Jeremiah 22:16

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:34

No longer shall they teach one another or say to each other, “Know the Lord,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity and remember their sin no more.

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 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 5:5

Let me go to the rich and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.

Jeremiah 6:28

They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.

Jeremiah 7:26

yet they did not listen to me or pay attention, but they stiffened their necks. They did worse than their ancestors did.

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.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit through the mouth. They all speak friendly words to their neighbors but inwardly are planning to lay an ambush.

Ezekiel 8:13

He said also to me, “You will see still greater abominations that they are committing.”

Daniel 11:27

The two kings, their minds bent on evil, shall sit at one table and exchange lies. But it shall not succeed, for there remains an end at the time appointed.

Leviticus 19:11

“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; and you shall not lie to one another.

Mark 8:38

Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

Acts 24:9

The Jews also joined in the charge by asserting that all this was true.

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is God’s saving power for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.

Romans 3:13

“Their throats are opened graves; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of vipers is under their lips.”

1 Corinthians 15:34

Sober up, as you rightly ought to, and sin no more, for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Philippians 1:28

and in no way frightened by those opposing you. For them, this is evidence of their destruction but of your salvation. And this is God’s doing.

2 Timothy 3:13

But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived.

Jude 1:3

Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once and for all handed on to the saints.

Revelation 12:11

But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.

Judges 14:17

She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and because she nagged him, on the seventh day he told her. Then she explained the riddle to her people.

Judges 2:10

Moreover, that whole generation was gathered to their ancestors, and another generation grew up after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were scoundrels; they had no regard for the Lord