Jeremiah 31:22
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22 How long will you (A)gad about,
O you (B)backsliding daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth—
A woman shall encompass a man.”
Hosea 14:4
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4 “I will heal their (A)backsliding,
I will (B)love them freely,
For My anger has turned away from him.
Jeremiah 49:4
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4 Why (A)do you boast in the valleys,
[a]Your flowing valley, O (B)backsliding daughter?
Who trusted in her (C)treasures, (D)saying,
‘Who will come against me?’
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- Jeremiah 49:4 Lit. Your valley is flowing
Jeremiah 3:22
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22 “Return, you backsliding children,
And I will (A)heal your backslidings.”
“Indeed we do come to You,
For You are the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 3:6
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A Call to Repentance
6 The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what (A)backsliding Israel has done? She has (B)gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.
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Jeremiah 2:23
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23 “How(A) can you say, ‘I am not [a]polluted,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
See your way in the valley;
Know what you have done:
You are a swift dromedary breaking loose in her ways,
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:23 defiled
Genesis 3:15
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15 And I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,
And between (A)your seed and (B)her Seed;
(C)He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.”
Jeremiah 13:27
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27 I have seen your adulteries
And your lustful (A)neighings,
The lewdness of your harlotry,
Your abominations (B)on the hills in the fields.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
Will you still not be made clean?”
Jeremiah 4:14
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14 O Jerusalem, (A)wash your heart from wickedness,
That you may be saved.
How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
Jeremiah 2:36
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36 (A)Why do you gad about so much to change your way?
Also (B)you shall be ashamed of Egypt (C)as you were ashamed of Assyria.
Jeremiah 2:18
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18 And now why take (A)the road to Egypt,
To drink the waters of (B)Sihor?
Or why take the road to (C)Assyria,
To drink the waters of [a]the River?
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:18 The Euphrates
Isaiah 7:14
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14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: (A)Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear (B)a Son, and shall call His name (C)Immanuel.[a]
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- Isaiah 7:14 Lit. God-With-Us
Numbers 16:30
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30 But if the Lord creates (A)a new thing, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they (B)go down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the Lord.”
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Galatians 4:4
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4 But (A)when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, (B)born[a] (C)of a woman, (D)born under the law,
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- Galatians 4:4 Or made
Luke 1:34-35
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34 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I [a]do not know a man?”
35 And the angel answered and said to her, (A)“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called (B)the Son of God.
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- Luke 1:34 Am a virgin
Matthew 1:21
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21 (A)And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name [a]Jesus, (B)for He will save His people from their sins.”
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- Matthew 1:21 Lit. Savior
Zechariah 7:11
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11 “But they refused to heed, (A)shrugged[a] their shoulders, and (B)stopped[b] their ears so that they could not hear.
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- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. gave a stubborn or rebellious shoulder
- Zechariah 7:11 Lit. made their ears heavy
Hosea 11:7
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7 My people are bent on (A)backsliding from Me.
Though [a]they call [b]to the Most High,
None at all exalt Him.
Footnotes
- Hosea 11:7 The prophets
- Hosea 11:7 Or upward
Hosea 8:5
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5 Your [a]calf [b]is rejected, O Samaria!
My anger is aroused against them—
(A)How long until they attain to innocence?
Hosea 4:16
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16 “For Israel (A)is stubborn
Like a stubborn calf;
Now the Lord will let them forage
Like a lamb in [a]open country.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:16 Lit. a large place
Jeremiah 14:7
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7 O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us,
Do it (A)for Your name’s sake;
For our backslidings are many,
We have sinned against You.
Jeremiah 8:4-6
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The Peril of False Teaching
4 “Moreover you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:
“Will they fall and not rise?
Will one turn away and not return?
5 Why has this people (A)slidden back,
Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding?
(B)They hold fast to deceit,
(C)They refuse to return.
6 (D)I listened and heard,
But they do not speak aright.
(E)No man repented of his wickedness,
Saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turned to his own course,
As the horse rushes into the battle.
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 3:14
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14 “Return, O backsliding children,” says the Lord; (A)“for I am married to you. I will take you, (B)one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to (C)Zion.
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Jeremiah 3:11-12
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11 Then the Lord said to me, (A)“Backsliding Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12 Go and proclaim these words toward (B)the north, and say:
‘Return, backsliding Israel,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not cause My anger to fall on you.
For I am (C)merciful,’ says the Lord;
‘I will not remain angry forever.
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