Jeremiah 4:22

The Passion Translation

“My people are foolish because they don’t know who I really am. They are reckless, senseless children. They think they are wise, but they are cunning in sinfulness and clueless in righteousness.”

Cross References

Genesis 39:16

She kept the robe beside her until his master came home

Psalm 36:3

Their wicked words are nothing but lies. Wisdom is far from them. Goodness is both forgotten and forsaken.

Psalm 36:4

They lie awake at night to hatch their evil plots, always planning their schemes of darkness, and never once do they consider the evil of their ways.

Psalm 53:4

Look how they live in luxury while exploiting my people. Won’t these workers of wickedness ever learn! They never even think of praying to God.

Psalm 82:5

But you continue in your darkness and ignorance while the foundations of society are shaken to the core!

Proverbs 28:5

Justice never makes sense to men devoted to darkness, but those tenderly devoted to the Lord can understand justice perfectly.

Isaiah 1:3

Even a dumb ox instinctively knows its owner and the stubborn mule knows the hand that feeds it, but Israel does not know me nor do my people understand.”

Isaiah 27:11

The trees are withered and stripped bare, and their women gather dead branches for firewood, because they are a people of no understanding. That is why their Maker will show them no compassion, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Jeremiah 10:8

What wisdom could they glean from a block of wood? They are foolish blockheads, one and all.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change the color of his skin, or the leopard remove his spots? Of course not. And neither can you change from being schooled to do evil to doing good.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not stop and ask, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ The scribal scholars did not intimately know me. The shepherds of the people rebelled against me. The false prophets prophesied by the spirit of Baal, and they worshiped idols that could not help them.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see their battle flags and hear their shofars blaring for battle?

Jeremiah 5:21

‘Pay attention, you foolish and senseless people. They have eyes but refuse to see. They have ears but refuse to hear.

Jeremiah 5:4

I thought, “These poor people are senseless, for they know neither God’s ways nor the justice of Yahweh.

Jeremiah 9:2

If only I had a shelter in the wilderness, a place for weary travelers to spend the night. Then I could leave my people and go away from them because they’re all unfaithful to God — a company of corrupters.

Jeremiah 9:3

Yahweh says: “They shoot out lies with their tongues, just as an archer uses a bow to shoot arrows. Their lies have prevailed in the land, but they are not faithful to Yahweh. My people go from one evil thing to another because they do not know my heart.

Jeremiah 9:5

They all are professional liars who lie to their neighbors. They are completely dishonest, and have trained their tongues to lie. They weary themselves doing wrong.

Ezekiel 16:30

“ ‘I, Lord Yahweh, say: You make me extremely angry because of all these things that you have done. You have acted like a brazen prostitute who has no shame.

Luke 16:8

“Even though his master was defrauded, when he found out about the shrewd way this manager had feathered his own nest, he congratulated the clever scoundrel for what he’d done to provide for his future.” Jesus continued, “Remember this: The sons of darkness interact more wisely than the sons of light.

John 16:3

And they will do these things because they don’t know anything about the Father or me.

Romans 1:22

Although claiming to be wise, they were in fact shallow fools.

Romans 1:28

And because they thought it was worthless to embrace the true knowledge of God, God gave them over to a worthless mind-set, to break all rules of proper conduct.

Romans 16:19

I’m so happy when I think of you, because everyone knows the testimony of your deep commitment of faith. So I want you to become scholars of all that is good and beautiful, and stay pure and innocent when it comes to evil.

Romans 3:11

There is no one with true spiritual insight, and there is no one who seeks after God alone.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Beloved ones, don’t remain as immature children in your reasoning. As it relates to evil, be like newborns, but in your thinking be mature adults.