Jeremiah 13:23

The Scriptures 1998

Does a Kushite change his skin and a leopard its spots? You who are taught to do evil are also unable to do good!

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:22

“Although you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your crookedness is ingrained before Me,” declares the Master יהוה.

Jeremiah 9:5

“And everyone deceives his neighbour, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak falsehood, and have wearied themselves to crook.

Jeremiah 17:9

“The heart is crooked above all, and desperately sick – who shall know it?

Jeremiah 5:3

O יהוה, are Your eyes not on truth? You have smitten them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive instruction. They made their faces harder than rock, they refused to turn back.

Jeremiah 2:30

“In vain have I smitten your children – they received no instruction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion.

Isaiah 1:5

Why should you be beaten any more? You continue in apostasy! All the head is sick, and all the heart faints.

Proverbs 27:22

Even if you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle Along with crushed grain, His folly shall not leave him.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are stupid children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

1 Samuel 19:21

And when Sha’ul was told, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. So Sha’ul sent messengers again, the third time, and they prophesied also.

2 Kings 17:40

And they did not obey, but did according to their former ruling.

Ecclesiastes 1:15

The crooked could not be straightened, and what is lacking could not be counted.