Jeremiah 4:22
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22 “For My people are foolish,
They have not known Me.
They are [a]silly children,
And they have no understanding.
(A)They are wise to do evil,
But to do good they have no knowledge.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 4:22 foolish
1 Corinthians 14:20
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Tongues a Sign to Unbelievers
20 Brethren, (A)do not be children in understanding; however, in malice (B)be babes, but in understanding be mature.
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Romans 16:19
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19 For (A)your obedience has become known to all. Therefore I am glad on your behalf; but I want you to be (B)wise in what is good, and [a]simple concerning evil.
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- Romans 16:19 innocent
Jeremiah 5:21
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21 ‘Hear this now, O (A)foolish people,
Without [a]understanding,
Who have eyes and see not,
And who have ears and hear not:
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- Jeremiah 5:21 Lit. heart
Romans 3:11
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11 There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
John 16:3
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3 And (A)these things they will do [a]to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.
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- John 16:3 NU, M omit to you
Micah 2:1
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Woe to Evildoers
2 Woe to those who devise iniquity,
And [a]work out evil on their beds!
At (A)morning light they practice it,
Because it is in the power of their hand.
Footnotes
- Micah 2:1 Plan
Hosea 5:4
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4 “They[a] do not direct their deeds
Toward turning to their God,
For (A)the spirit of harlotry is in their midst,
And they do not know the Lord.
Footnotes
- Hosea 5:4 Or Their deeds will not allow them to turn
Hosea 4:6
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6 (A)My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
(B)Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
Deuteronomy 32:28
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28 “For they are a nation void of counsel,
Nor is there any understanding in them.
Romans 1:28
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28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things (A)which are not fitting;
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Romans 1:22
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22 (A)Professing to be wise, they became fools,
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Jeremiah 13:23
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23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots?
Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil.
Isaiah 27:11
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11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off;
The women come and set them on fire.
For (A)it is a people of no understanding;
Therefore He who made them will (B)not have mercy on them,
And (C)He who formed them will show them no favor.
Isaiah 6:9-10
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9 And He said, “Go, and (A)tell this people:
‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;
Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’
10 “Make (B)the heart of this people dull,
And their ears heavy,
And shut their eyes;
(C)Lest they see with their eyes,
And hear with their ears,
And understand with their heart,
And return and be healed.”
Jeremiah 10:8
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- Jeremiah 10:8 vain teaching
Jeremiah 5:4
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4 Therefore I said, “Surely these are poor.
They are foolish;
For (A)they do not know the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.
Isaiah 42:19-20
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19 (A)Who is blind but My servant,
Or deaf as My messenger whom I send?
Who is blind as he who is perfect,
And blind as the Lord’s servant?
20 Seeing many things, (B)but you do not observe;
Opening the ears, but he does not hear.”
1 Corinthians 1:20-21
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20 (A)Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the [a]disputer of this age? (B)Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21 For since, in the (C)wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.
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- 1 Corinthians 1:20 debater
Isaiah 1:3
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3 (A)The ox knows its owner
And the donkey its master’s [a]crib;
But Israel (B)does not know,
My people do not [b]consider.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:3 manger or feed trough
- Isaiah 1:3 understand
Psalm 14:1-4
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Folly of the Godless, and God’s Final Triumph(A)
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
14 The (B)fool has said in his heart,
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt,
They have done abominable works,
There is none who does good.
2 (C)The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
3 (D)They have all turned aside,
They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And (E)do not call on the Lord?
Luke 16:8
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8 So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than (A)the sons of light.
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Matthew 23:16-26
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16 “Woe to you, (A)blind guides, who say, (B)‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.’ 17 Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold (C)or the temple that [a]sanctifies the gold? 18 And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obliged to perform it.’ 19 Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift (D)or the altar that sanctifies the gift? 20 Therefore he who [b]swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it. 21 He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by (E)Him who [c]dwells in it. 22 And he who swears by heaven, swears by (F)the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.
23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! (G)For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and (H)have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. 24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! (I)For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and [d]self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.
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- Matthew 23:17 NU sanctified
- Matthew 23:20 Swears an oath
- Matthew 23:21 M dwelt
- Matthew 23:25 M unrighteousness
Hosea 4:1
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God’s Charge Against Israel
4 Hear the word of the Lord,
You children of Israel,
For the Lord brings a (A)charge[a] against the inhabitants of the land:
“There is no truth or mercy
Or (B)knowledge of God in the land.
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:1 A legal complaint
Jeremiah 8:7-9
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7 “Even (A)the stork in the heavens
Knows her appointed times;
And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow
Observe the time of their coming.
But (B)My people do not know the judgment of the Lord.
8 “How can you say, ‘We are wise,
(C)And the law of the Lord is with us’?
Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.
9 (D)The wise men are ashamed,
They are dismayed and taken.
Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord;
So (E)what wisdom do they have?
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