Jeremiah 4:22 Cross References
Jeremiah 4:22
22: "My people are foolish and do not know me," says the LORD. "They are senseless children who have no understanding. They are clever enough at doing wrong, but they have no talent at all for doing right!"
1 Corinthians 14:20
- Dear brothers and sisters, don't be childish in your understanding of these things. Be innocent as babies when it comes to evil, but be mature and wise in understanding matters of this kind.
Romans 16:19
- But everyone knows that you are obedient to the Lord. This makes me very happy. I want you to see clearly what is right and to stay innocent of any wrong.
Jeremiah 5:21
- Listen, you foolish and senseless people--who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
Romans 3:11
- No one has real understanding; no one is seeking God.
Hosea 4:6
- My people are being destroyed because they don't know me. It is all your fault, you priests, for you yourselves refuse to know me. Now I refuse to recognize you as my priests. Since you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will forget to bless your children.
Deuteronomy 32:28
- "Israel is a nation that lacks sense; the people are foolish, without understanding.
Hosea 5:4
- Your deeds won't let you return to your God. You are a prostitute through and through, and you cannot know the LORD.
John 16:3
- This is because they have never known the Father or me.
Micah 2:1
- How terrible it will be for you who lie awake at night, thinking up evil plans. You rise at dawn and hurry to carry out any of the wicked schemes you have power to accomplish.
Romans 1:28
- When they refused to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their evil minds and let them do things that should never be done.
Isaiah 6:9
- And he said, "Yes, go. But tell my people this: `You will hear my words, but you will not understand. You will see what I do, but you will not perceive its meaning.'
- Harden the hearts of these people. Close their ears, and shut their eyes. That way, they will not see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn to me for healing."
Isaiah 27:11
- The people are like the dead branches of a tree, broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots. Israel is a foolish and stupid nation, for its people have turned away from God. Therefore, the one who made them will show them no pity or mercy.
Jeremiah 13:23
- Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard take away its spots? Neither can you start doing good, for you always do evil.
Romans 1:22
- Claiming to be wise, they became utter fools instead.
Isaiah 42:19
- Who in all the world is as blind as my own people, my servant? Who is as deaf as my messengers? Who is as blind as my chosen people, the servant of the LORD?
- You see and understand what is right but refuse to act on it. You hear, but you don't really listen."
Jeremiah 10:8
- The wisest of people who worship idols are stupid and foolish. The things they worship are made of wood!
Jeremiah 5:4
- Then I said, "But what can we expect from the poor and ignorant? They don't know the ways of the LORD. They don't understand what God expects of them.
Psalms 14:1
- Only fools say in their hearts, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; no one does good!
- The LORD looks down from heaven on the entire human race; he looks to see if there is even one with real understanding, one who seeks for God.
- But no, all have turned away from God; all have become corrupt. No one does good, not even one!
- Will those who do evil never learn? They eat up my people like bread; they wouldn't think of praying to the LORD.
1 Corinthians 1:20
- So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made them all look foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense.
- Since God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never find him through human wisdom, he has used our foolish preaching to save all who believe.
Isaiah 1:3
- Even the animals--the donkey and the ox--know their owner and appreciate his care, but not my people Israel. No matter what I do for them, they still do not understand."
Isaiah 29:10
- For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries.
- All these future events are a sealed book to them. When you give it to those who can read, they will say, "We can't read it because it is sealed."
- When you give it to those who cannot read, they will say, "Sorry, we don't know how to read."
Matthew 23:16
- "Blind guides! How terrible it will be for you! For you say that it means nothing to swear 'by God's Temple'--you can break that oath. But then you say that it is binding to swear 'by the gold in the Temple.'
- Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold, or the Temple that makes the gold sacred?
- And you say that to take an oath 'by the altar' can be broken, but to swear 'by the gifts on the altar' is binding!
- How blind! For which is greater, the gift on the altar, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
- When you swear 'by the altar,' you are swearing by it and by everything on it.
Deuteronomy 32:6
- Is this the way you repay the LORD, you foolish and senseless people? Isn't he your Father who created you? Has he not made you and established you?
Jeremiah 8:7
- The stork knows the time of her migration, as do the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane. They all return at the proper time each year. But not my people! They do not know what the LORD requires of them.
- " `How can you say, "We are wise because we have the law of the LORD," when your teachers have twisted it so badly?
- These wise teachers will be shamed by exile for their sin, for they have rejected the word of the LORD. Are they so wise after all?
Luke 16:8
- "The rich man had to admire the dishonest rascal for being so shrewd. And it is true that the citizens of this world are more shrewd than the godly are.
2 Samuel 13:3
- Now Amnon had a very crafty friend--his cousin Jonadab. He was the son of David's brother Shimea.
2 Samuel 16:21
- Ahithophel told him, "Go and sleep with your father's concubines, for he has left them here to keep the house. Then all Israel will know that you have insulted him beyond hope of reconciliation, and they will give you their support."
- So they set up a tent on the palace roof where everyone could see it, and Absalom went into the tent to sleep with his father's concubines.
- Absalom followed Ahithophel's advice, just as David had done. For every word Ahithophel spoke seemed as wise as though it had come directly from the mouth of God.
Hosea 4:1
- Hear the word of the LORD, O people of Israel! The LORD has filed a lawsuit against you, saying: "There is no faithfulness, no kindness, no knowledge of God in your land.