Jeremiah 8:5

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Why then have the people of Jerusalem fallen back by a perpetual backsliding? They cling to deceit. They refuse to return.

Cross References

Proverbs 4:13

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

Isaiah 1:20

but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.”

Isaiah 30:10

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

Isaiah 44:20

He feeds on ashes. A deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can’t deliver his soul, nor say, “Isn’t there a lie in my right hand?”

Jeremiah 14:7

Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, LORD; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.

Jeremiah 2:32

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

Jeremiah 3:5

“‘Will he retain his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end?’ Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way.”

Jeremiah 5:27

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

Jeremiah 5:3

O LORD, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

Jeremiah 5:6

Therefore a lion out of the forest will kill them. A wolf of the evenings will destroy them. A leopard will watch against their cities. Everyone who goes out there will be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backsliding has increased.

Jeremiah 6:17

I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Listen to the sound of the shofar!’ But they said, ‘We will not listen!’

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

Jeremiah 9:6

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says the LORD.

Daniel 9:11

Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. “Therefore the curse and the oath written in the Torah of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, for we have sinned against him.

Hosea 11:5

“They won’t return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian will be their king, because they refused to repent.

Hosea 11:7

My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.

Hosea 13:2

Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’

Hosea 4:16

For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will the LORD feed them like a lamb in a meadow?

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

John 5:40

Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Hebrews 12:25

See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,

Revelation 2:25

Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.