Jeremiah 3:1 Cross References

Jeremiah 3:1

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.

Deuteronomy 24:1

  1. "Suppose a man marries a woman but later discovers something about her that is shameful. So he writes her a letter of divorce, gives it to her, and sends her away.
  2. If she then leaves and marries another man
  3. and the second husband also divorces her or dies,
  4. the former husband may not marry her again, for she has been defiled. That would be detestable to the LORD. You must not bring guilt upon the land the LORD your God is giving you as a special possession.

Jeremiah 2:20

  1. Long ago I broke your yoke and tore away the chains of your slavery, but still you would not obey me. On every hill and under every green tree, you have prostituted yourselves by bowing down to idols.

Ezekiel 16:26

  1. Then you added lustful Egypt to your lovers, fanning the flames of my anger with your increasing promiscuity.

Jeremiah 4:1

  1. "O Israel, come back to me," says the LORD. "If you will throw away your detestable idols and go astray no more,

Hosea 14:1

  1. Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sins have brought you down.
  2. Bring your petitions, and return to the LORD. Say to him, "Forgive all our sins and graciously receive us, so that we may offer you the sacrifice of praise.
  3. Assyria cannot save us, nor can our strength in battle. Never again will we call the idols we have made `our gods.' No, in you alone do the orphans find mercy."
  4. The LORD says, "Then I will heal you of your idolatry and faithlessness, and my love will know no bounds, for my anger will be gone forever!

Hosea 2:5

  1. For their mother is a shameless prostitute and became pregnant in a shameful way. She said, `I'll run after other lovers and sell myself to them for food and drink, for clothing of wool and linen, and for olive oil.'
  2. "But I will fence her in with thornbushes. I will block the road to make her lose her way.
  3. When she runs after her lovers, she won't be able to catch up with them. She will search for them but not find them. Then she will think, `I might as well return to my husband because I was better off with him than I am now.'

Zechariah 1:3

  1. Therefore, say to the people, `This is what the LORD Almighty says: Return to me, and I will return to you, says the LORD Almighty.'

Luke 15:16

  1. The boy became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him. But no one gave him anything.
  2. "When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, 'At home even the hired men have food enough to spare, and here I am, dying of hunger!
  3. I will go home to my father and say, "Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you,
  4. and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired man."'
  5. "So he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long distance away, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.

Ezekiel 33:11

  1. As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of wicked people. I only want them to turn from their wicked ways so they can live. Turn! Turn from your wickedness, O people of Israel! Why should you die?

Hosea 1:2

  1. When the LORD first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, "Go and marry a prostitute, so some of her children will be born to you from other men. This will illustrate the way my people have been untrue to me, openly committing adultery against the LORD by worshiping other gods."

Judges 19:2

  1. But she was unfaithful to him and returned to her father's home in Bethlehem. After about four months,

Deuteronomy 4:29

  1. From there you will search again for the LORD your God. And if you search for him with all your heart and soul, you will find him.
  2. "When those bitter days have come upon you far in the future, you will finally return to the LORD your God and listen to what he tells you.
  3. For the LORD your God is merciful--he will not abandon you or destroy you or forget the solemn covenant he made with your ancestors.

Isaiah 55:6

  1. Seek the LORD while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near.
  2. Let the people turn from their wicked deeds. Let them banish from their minds the very thought of doing wrong! Let them turn to the LORD that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  3. "My thoughts are completely different from yours," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
  4. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

Jeremiah 3:9

  1. Israel treated it all so lightly--she thought nothing of committing adultery by worshiping idols made of wood and stone. So now the land has been greatly defiled.

Jeremiah 4:14

  1. O Jerusalem, cleanse your hearts that you may be saved. How long will you harbor your evil thoughts?

Ezekiel 23:4

  1. 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.
  2. "Then Oholah lusted after other lovers instead of me, and she gave her love to the Assyrians, her neighbors.
  3. They were all attractive young men, captains and commanders dressed in handsome blue, dashing about on their horses.
  4. And so she prostituted herself with the most desirable men of Assyria, worshiping their idols and defiling herself.
  5. For when she left Egypt, she did not leave her spirit of prostitution behind. She was still as lewd as in her youth, when the Egyptians satisfied their lusts with her and robbed her of her virginity.

Jeremiah 8:4

  1. "Jeremiah, say to the people, `This is what the LORD says: When people fall down, don't they get up again? When they start down the wrong road and discover their mistake, don't they turn back?
  2. Then why do these people keep going along their self-destructive path, refusing to turn back, even though I have warned them?
  3. I listen to their conversations, and what do I hear? Is anyone sorry for sin? Does anyone say, "What a terrible thing I have done"? No! All are running down the path of sin as swiftly as a horse rushing into battle!

Jeremiah 2:23

  1. "You say, `That's not true! We haven't worshiped the images of Baal!' But how can you say that? Go and look in any valley in the land! Face the awful sins you have done. You are like a restless female camel, desperate for a male!

Ezekiel 16:28

  1. 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.
  2. You added to your lovers by embracing that great merchant land of Babylonia--but you still weren't satisfied!

Jeremiah 3:12

  1. Therefore, go and say these words to Israel, `This is what the LORD says: O Israel, my faithless people, come home to me again, for I am merciful. I will not be angry with you forever.
  2. Only acknowledge your guilt. Admit that you rebelled against the LORD your God and committed adultery against him by worshiping idols under every green tree. Confess that you refused to follow me. I, the LORD, have spoken!'"
  3. "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.

Micah 2:10

  1. Up! Begone! This is no longer your land and home, for you have filled it with sin and ruined it completely.

Leviticus 18:24

  1. "Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the people I am expelling from the Promised Land have defiled themselves.
  2. As a result, the entire land has become defiled. That is why I am punishing the people who live there, and the land will soon vomit them out.
  3. You must strictly obey all of my laws and regulations, and you must not do any of these detestable things. This applies both to you who are Israelites by birth and to the foreigners living among you.
  4. "All these detestable activities are practiced by the people of the land where I am taking you, and the land has become defiled.
  5. Do not give the land a reason to vomit you out for defiling it, as it will vomit out the people who live there now.

Jeremiah 3:22

  1. "My wayward children," says the LORD, "come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts.Yes, we will come," the people reply, "for you are the LORD our God.

Deuteronomy 22:21

  1. In such cases, the judges must take the girl to the door of her father's home, and the men of the town will stone her to death. She has committed a disgraceful crime in Israel by being promiscuous while living in her parents' home. Such evil must be cleansed from among you.

Isaiah 24:5

  1. The earth suffers for the sins of its people, for they have twisted the instructions of God, violated his laws, and broken his everlasting covenant.

Jeremiah 2:7

  1. "And when I brought you into a fruitful land to enjoy its bounty and goodness, you defiled my land and corrupted the inheritance I had promised you.
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