Jeremiah 8:9 Cross References
Jeremiah 8:9
9: 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?
Jeremiah 6:15
- Are they ashamed when they do these disgusting things? No, not at all--they don't even blush! Therefore, they will lie among the slaughtered. They will be humbled beneath my punishing anger," says the LORD.
Psalms 119:98
- Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for your commands are my constant guide.
- Yes, I have more insight than my teachers, for I am always thinking of your decrees.
- I am even wiser than my elders, for I have kept your commandments.
Deuteronomy 4:6
- If you obey them carefully, you will display your wisdom and intelligence to the surrounding nations. When they hear about these laws, they will exclaim, `What other nation is as wise and prudent as this!'
Jeremiah 6:19
- Listen, all the earth! I will bring disaster upon my people. It is the fruit of their own sin because they refuse to listen to me. They have rejected all my instructions.
Isaiah 19:11
- What fools are the counselors of Zoan! Their best counsel to the king of Egypt is stupid and wrong. Will they still boast of their wisdom? Will they dare tell Pharaoh about their long line of wise ancestors?
Job 5:12
- He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so their efforts will not succeed.
Ezekiel 7:26
- Calamity will follow calamity; rumor will follow rumor. They will look in vain for a vision from the prophets. They will receive no teaching from the priests and no counsel from the leaders.
Jeremiah 49:7
- This message was given concerning Edom. This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Where are all the wise men of Teman? Is there no one left to give wise counsel?
2 Timothy 3:15
- You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus.
Psalms 19:7
- The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul. The decrees of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple.
Isaiah 8:20
- "Check their predictions against my testimony," says the LORD. "If their predictions are different from mine, it is because there is no light or truth in them.
1 Corinthians 1:18
- I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to those who are on the road to destruction. But we who are being saved recognize this message as the very power of God.
- As the Scriptures say, "I will destroy human wisdom and discard their most brilliant ideas."
- 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.
- God's way seems foolish to the Jews because they want a sign from heaven to prove it is true. And it is foolish to the Greeks because they believe only what agrees with their own wisdom.