Jeremiah 6:16

Revised Standard Version

Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; 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 thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, thy people Israel, when thou dost teach them the good way in which they should walk; and grant rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people as an inheritance.

2 Chronicles 19:11

And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the Lord; and Zebadiah the 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 upright!”

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

Isaiah 46:9

remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,

Isaiah 57:2

he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.

Isaiah 8:20

To the teaching and to the testimony! Surely for this word which they speak there is no dawn.

Jeremiah 12:16

And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ even 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, ‘That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’

Jeremiah 18:15

But my people have forgotten me, they burn incense to false gods; 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 unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is hopeless, 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, that you have not obeyed my voice.

Jeremiah 31:21

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

Jeremiah 42:3

that the Lord your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do.”

Jeremiah 44:16

“As for the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you.

Jeremiah 50:5

They shall ask the way to Zion, with faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant which 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; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

Jeremiah 7:3

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

Malachi 4:4

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

Luke 16:29

But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’

John 12:35

Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, lest the darkness overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

John 13:17

If you know these things, blessed are you 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 bear witness to me;

Acts 17:11

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with all eagerness, examining the scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Romans 4:12

and likewise the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but also follow the example of the faith which our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

Colossians 2:6

As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in him,

Hebrews 11:2

For by it the men of old received divine approval.

Hebrews 6:12

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

Judges 2:17

And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them; they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.