Jeremiah 10:3

Tree of Life Version

The customs of the peoples are useless: it is just a tree cut from the forest, the work of the hands of a craftsman with a chisel.

Cross References

Psalm 115:4

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

Isaiah 45:20

“Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, fugitives of the nations! Those who carry their wooden idols have no knowledge, praying to a god who cannot save.

Jeremiah 1:16

I will pronounce My judgments on them for all their wickedness— they have forsaken Me, offering incense to other gods, worshipping the works of their hands.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are totally stupid and foolish. Discipline is useless—it’s wood!

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any of the idols of the nations bring rain? Or can the skies grant showers? Is it not You, Adonai our God? Do we not wait for You? For You have done all these things.

Jeremiah 16:19

Adonai, my strength, my stronghold, my refuge in the day of affliction, to You will the nations come from the ends of the earth and say: “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, futility and useless things.”

Jeremiah 2:5

Thus says Adonai: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They walked after worthless things, becoming worthless themselves?

Leviticus 18:30

Therefore you are to keep My charge, so that you do not practice any of these detestable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am Adonai your God.”

Matthew 6:7

And when you are praying, do not babble on and on like the pagans; for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

Acts 19:26

You see and hear that not only in Ephesus but also throughout all Asia, Paul has persuaded and perverted a considerable crowd, saying that handmade gods are not gods at all.

Romans 1:21

for even though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. Instead, their thinking became futile, and their senseless hearts were made dark.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that you were redeemed from the futile way of life handed down from your ancestors—not with perishable things such as silver or gold,