Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 23:8-17
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but, Jehovah lives, who brought up and led the seed of the house of Israel out of the land of the north, and from all lands where I have driven them. And they shall dwell in their own land.
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My heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake. I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of the Words of His holiness.
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For the land is full of adulterers. Yes, because of cursing the land mourns; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their strength is not right.
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For both prophet and priest are corrupt; yes, in My house I have found their evil, says Jehovah.
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So their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall in them; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their punishment, says Jehovah.
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And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal and caused My people Israel to go astray.
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I have also seen in the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing; they commit adultery and walk in falsehood. They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns back from his evil; they are all of them like Sodom to Me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.
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Therefore thus says Jehovah of Hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them wormwood, and make them drink bitter water; for godlessness has gone forth from the prophets of Jerusalem into all the land.
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Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They fill you with vanities; they speak a vision from their own heart, not out of the mouth of Jehovah.
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They speak to those who despise Me, promising, Jehovah has said, You shall have peace! And they say to everyone who walks after the stubbornness of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you!
Jeremiah 44:14-17
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so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there shall escape or survive, that they should return into the land of Judah to which they have a desire to return to live there. For no one shall return except those who escape.
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And all the men who knew that their wives had burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great multitude, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
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As for the Word that you have spoken to us in the name of Jehovah, we will not give heed to you.
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But we will prepare and do whatever goes forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our rulers, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and were well-off, and saw no evil.
Titus 3:1
Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey superiors, to be ready for every good work,
ordinance
Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek Me daily, and delight to know My ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and did not forsake the ordinance of their God. They ask of Me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in drawing near to God.
1 Peter 2:13
Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man because of the Lord; whether to the king as supreme,
receive
Romans 13:5
Therefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience.
Matthew 23:14
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive more abundant condemnation.
Mark 12:40
who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive surpassing condemnation.
Luke 20:47
who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.
James 3:1
My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.