Jeremiah 11:15 Cross References
Jeremiah 11:15
15: What right do my beloved people have to come to my Temple, where they have done so many immoral things? Can their sacrifices avert their destruction? They actually rejoice in doing evil!
Proverbs 2:14
- They rejoice in doing wrong, and they enjoy evil as it turns things upside down.
Titus 1:15
- Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure. But nothing is pure to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, because their minds and consciences are defiled.
Haggai 2:12
- If one of you is carrying a holy sacrifice in his robes and happens to brush against some bread or stew, wine or oil, or any other kind of food, will it also become holy?" The priests replied, "No."
- Then Haggai asked, "But if someone becomes ceremonially unclean by touching a dead person and then brushes against any of the things mentioned, will it be defiled?" And the priests answered, "Yes."
- Then Haggai said, "That is how it is with this people and this nation, says the LORD. Everything they do and everything they offer is defiled.
Psalms 50:16
- But God says to the wicked: "Recite my laws no longer, and don't pretend that you obey me.
Ezekiel 16:25
- On every street corner you defiled your beauty, offering your body to every passerby in an endless stream of prostitution.
- Then you added lustful Egypt to your lovers, fanning the flames of my anger with your increasing promiscuity.
- That is why I struck you with my fist and reduced your boundaries. I handed you over to your enemies, the Philistines, and even they were shocked by your lewd conduct!
- You have prostituted yourselves with the Assyrians, too. It seems you can never find enough new lovers! And after your prostitution there, you still were not satisfied.
- You added to your lovers by embracing that great merchant land of Babylonia--but you still weren't satisfied!
Isaiah 50:1
- The LORD asks, "Did I sell you as slaves to my creditors? Is that why you are not here? Is your mother gone because I divorced her and sent her away? No, you went away as captives because of your sins. And your mother, too, was taken because of your sins.
Romans 11:28
- Many of the Jews are now enemies of the Good News. But this has been to your benefit, for God has given his gifts to you Gentiles. Yet the Jews are still his chosen people because of his promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Luke 8:28
- As soon as he saw Jesus, he shrieked and fell to the ground before him, screaming, "Why are you bothering me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Please, I beg you, don't torture me!"
1 Corinthians 13:6
- It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Jeremiah 2:2
- "Go and shout in Jerusalem's streets: `This is what the LORD says: I remember how eager you were to please me as a young bride long ago, how you loved me and followed me even through the barren wilderness.
Jeremiah 15:1
- Then the LORD said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I wouldn't help them. Away with them! Get them out of my sight!
Proverbs 26:18
- Just as damaging as a mad man shooting a lethal weapon
Proverbs 15:8
- The LORD hates the sacrifice of the wicked, but he delights in the prayers of the upright.
Isaiah 1:11
- "I am sick of your sacrifices," says the LORD. "Don't bring me any more burnt offerings! I don't want the fat from your rams or other animals. I don't want to see the blood from your offerings of bulls and rams and goats.
- Why do you keep parading through my courts with your worthless sacrifices?
- The incense you bring me is a stench in my nostrils! Your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath day, and your special days for fasting--even your most pious meetings--are all sinful and false. I want nothing more to do with them.
- I hate all your festivals and sacrifices. I cannot stand the sight of them!
- From now on, when you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen. For your hands are covered with the blood of your innocent victims.
Jeremiah 12:7
- "I have abandoned my people, my special possession. I have surrendered my dearest ones to their enemies.
Ezekiel 23:2
- "Son of man, once there were two sisters who were daughters of the same mother.
- They became prostitutes in Egypt. Even as young girls, they allowed themselves to be fondled and caressed.
- The older girl was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. I married them, and they bore me sons and daughters. I am speaking of Samaria and Jerusalem, for Oholah is Samaria and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
- "Then Oholah lusted after other lovers instead of me, and she gave her love to the Assyrians, her neighbors.
- They were all attractive young men, captains and commanders dressed in handsome blue, dashing about on their horses.
Proverbs 21:27
- God loathes the sacrifice of an evil person, especially when it is brought with ulterior motives.
Matthew 22:11
- But when the king came in to meet the guests, he noticed a man who wasn't wearing the proper clothes for a wedding.
Jeremiah 3:8
- she paid no attention. She saw that I had divorced faithless Israel and sent her away. But now Judah, too, has left me and given herself to prostitution.
Jeremiah 3:1
- "If a man divorces a woman and she marries someone else, he is not to take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, says the LORD. Yet I am still calling you to come back to me.
- "Look all around you. Is there anywhere in the entire land where you have not been defiled by your adulteries? You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a client. You sit alone like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
Proverbs 10:23
- Doing wrong is fun for a fool, while wise conduct is a pleasure to the wise.
Proverbs 28:9
- The prayers of a person who ignores the law are despised.
Jeremiah 3:14
- "Return home, you wayward children," says the LORD, "for I am your husband. I will bring you again to the land of Israel--one from here and two from there, from wherever you are scattered.
Hosea 3:1
- Then the LORD said to me, "Go and get your wife again. Bring her back to you and love her, even though she loves adultery. For the LORD still loves Israel even though the people have turned to other gods, offering them choice gifts. "
Jeremiah 7:8
- " `Do you think that because the Temple is here you will never suffer? Don't fool yourselves!
- Do you really think you can steal, murder, commit adultery, lie, and worship Baal and all those other new gods of yours,
- and then come here and stand before me in my Temple and chant, "We are safe!"--only to go right back to all those evils again?
- Do you think this Temple, which honors my name, is a den of thieves? I see all the evil going on there, says the LORD.
James 4:16
- Otherwise you will be boasting about your own plans, and all such boasting is evil.