Jeremiah 23:17
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17 They continually say to those who despise Me,
‘The Lord has said, (A)“You shall have peace” ’;
And to everyone who (B)walks according to the [a]dictates of his own heart, they say,
(C)‘No evil shall come upon you.’ ”
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- Jeremiah 23:17 stubbornness or imagination
Micah 3:11
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11 (A)Her heads judge for a bribe,
(B)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for [a]money.
(C)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
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- Micah 3:11 Lit. silver
Jeremiah 13:10
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10 This evil people, who (A)refuse to hear My words, who (B)follow[a] the dictates of their hearts, and walk after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be just like this sash which is profitable for nothing.
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- Jeremiah 13:10 walk in the stubbornness or imagination
Amos 9:10
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10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
(A)Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’
Jeremiah 9:14
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14 but they have (A)walked according to the [a]dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, (B)which their fathers taught them,”
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- Jeremiah 9:14 stubbornness or imagination
Jeremiah 8:11
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11 For they have (A)healed the hurt of the daughter of My people [a]slightly,
Saying, (B)‘Peace, peace!’
When there is no peace.
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- Jeremiah 8:11 Superficially
Jeremiah 5:12
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12 (A)They have lied about the Lord,
And said, (B)“It is not He.
(C)Neither will [a]evil come upon us,
Nor shall we see sword or famine.
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- Jeremiah 5:12 disaster
Deuteronomy 29:19
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19 and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I [a]follow the (A)dictates of my heart’—(B)as though the drunkard could be included with the sober.
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- Deuteronomy 29:19 walk in the stubbornness or imagination
Zechariah 10:2
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2 For the (A)idols[a] speak delusion;
The diviners envision (B)lies,
And tell false dreams;
They (C)comfort in vain.
Therefore the people wend their way like (D)sheep;
They are [b]in trouble (E)because there is no shepherd.
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- Zechariah 10:2 Heb. teraphim
- Zechariah 10:2 afflicted
Ezekiel 13:22
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22 “Because with (A)lies you have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and you have (B)strengthened the hands of the wicked, so that he does not turn from his wicked way to save his life.
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Ezekiel 13:10
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10 “Because, indeed, because they have seduced My people, saying, (A)‘Peace!’ when there is no peace—and one builds a wall, and they (B)plaster[a] it with untempered mortar—
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- Ezekiel 13:10 Or whitewash
Jeremiah 18:18
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Jeremiah Persecuted
18 Then they said, (A)“Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; (B)for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us attack him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.”
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Jeremiah 6:14
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14 They have also (A)healed the [a]hurt of My people [b]slightly,
(B)Saying, ‘Peace, peace!’
When there is no peace.
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- Jeremiah 6:14 Lit. crushing
- Jeremiah 6:14 Superficially
Jeremiah 3:17
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17 “At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the Lord, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, (A)to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem. No more shall they (B)follow[a] the dictates of their evil hearts.
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- Jeremiah 3:17 walk after the stubbornness or imagination
Numbers 11:20
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20 (A)but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have (B)despised the Lord who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, (C)“Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?” ’ ”
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1 Thessalonians 4:8
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8 (A)Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, (B)who[a] has also given us His Holy Spirit.
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- 1 Thessalonians 4:8 NU who also gives
Luke 10:16
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16 (A)He who hears you hears Me, (B)he who rejects you rejects Me, and (C)he who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me.”
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Ezekiel 13:15-16
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15 “Thus will I accomplish My wrath on the wall and on those who have plastered it with untempered mortar; and I will say to you, ‘The wall is no more, nor those who plastered it, 16 that is, the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who (A)see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,’ ” says the Lord God.
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Lamentations 2:14
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14 Your (A)prophets have seen for you
False and deceptive visions;
They have not (B)uncovered your iniquity,
To bring back your captives,
But have envisioned for you false (C)prophecies and delusions.
Jeremiah 28:3-9
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3 (A)Within two full years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon (B)took away from this place and carried to Babylon. 4 And I will bring back to this place [a]Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah who went to Babylon,’ says the Lord, ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’ ”
5 Then the prophet Jeremiah spoke to the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests and in the presence of all the people who stood in the house of the Lord, 6 and the prophet Jeremiah said, (C)“Amen! The Lord do so; the Lord perform your words which you have prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the Lord’s house and all who were carried away captive, from Babylon to this place. 7 Nevertheless hear now this word that I speak in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people: 8 The prophets who have been before me and before you of old prophesied against many countries and great kingdoms—of war and disaster and pestilence. 9 As for (D)the prophet who prophesies of (E)peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, the prophet will be known as one whom the Lord has truly sent.”
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- Jeremiah 28:4 Jehoiachin, 2 Kin. 24:12
Jeremiah 7:24
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24 (A)Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but (B)followed[a] the counsels and the [b]dictates of their evil hearts, and (C)went[c] backward and not forward.
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- Jeremiah 7:24 walked in
- Jeremiah 7:24 stubbornness or imagination
- Jeremiah 7:24 Lit. they were
Jeremiah 4:10
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10 Then I said, “Ah, Lord God!
(A)Surely You have greatly deceived this people and Jerusalem,
(B)Saying, ‘You shall have peace,’
Whereas the sword reaches to the [a]heart.”
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- Jeremiah 4:10 Lit. soul
Isaiah 57:21
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21 “There(A) is no peace,”
Says my God, “for the wicked.”
Isaiah 3:10-11
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10 “Say to the righteous (A)that it shall be well with them,
(B)For they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe to the wicked! (C)It shall be ill with him,
For the reward of his hands shall be [a]given him.
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- Isaiah 3:11 done to him
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