Jeremiah 8:5
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5 Why then has this people[a] turned away
in perpetual faithlessness?
They have held fast to deceit;
they have refused to return.(A)
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- 8.5 Heb ms Gk: MT this people, Jerusalem,
Jeremiah 9:6
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- 9.6 Cn Compare Gk: Heb Your dwelling in the midst of deceit
Jeremiah 5:3
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3 O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth?
You have struck them,
but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
but they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
they have refused to turn back.(A)
Zechariah 7:11
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11 But they refused to listen and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears in order not to hear.(A)
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Hebrews 12:25
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25 See that you do not refuse the one who is speaking, for if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject the one who warns from heaven!(A)
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2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
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9 The coming of the lawless one is apparent in the working of Satan, who uses all power, signs, lying wonders,(A) 10 and every kind of wicked deception for those who are perishing because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(B) 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion, leading them to believe what is false,(C) 12 so that all who have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned.(D)
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John 5:40
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40 Yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
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Hosea 11:7
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7 My people are bent on turning away from me.
To the Most High they call,
but he does not raise them up at all.[a](A)
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- 11.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Jeremiah 5:27
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27 Like a cage full of birds,
their houses are full of treachery;
therefore they have become great and rich;(A)
Isaiah 44:20
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20 He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”(A)
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Isaiah 30:10
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10 who say to the seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us smooth things;
prophesy illusions;(A)
Revelation 2:25
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25 only hold fast to what you have until I come.
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1 Thessalonians 5:21
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21 but test everything; hold fast to what is good;(A)
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Hosea 4:16
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16 Like a stubborn heifer,
Israel is stubborn;
can the Lord now feed them
like a lamb in a broad pasture?(A)
Jeremiah 7:24-26
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24 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but, in the stubbornness of their evil will, they walked in their own counsels and looked backward rather than forward.(A) 25 From the day that your ancestors came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day,(B) 26 yet they did not listen to me or pay attention, but they stiffened their necks. They did worse than their ancestors did.(C)
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Jeremiah 3:11-14
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11 Then the Lord said to me: Faithless Israel has shown herself less guilty than false Judah.(A) 12 Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say:
Return, faithless Israel,
says the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
for I am merciful,
says the Lord;
I will not be angry forever.(B)
13 Only acknowledge your guilt,
that you have rebelled against the Lord your God
and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree
and have not obeyed my voice,
says the Lord.(C)
14 Return, O faithless children,
says the Lord,
for I am your husband;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
and I will bring you to Zion.(D)
Jeremiah 2:32
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32 Can a young woman forget her ornaments
or a bride her attire?
Yet my people have forgotten me,
days without number.(A)
Isaiah 1:20
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20 but if you refuse and rebel,
you shall be devoured by the sword,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.(A)
Proverbs 4:13
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13 Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;
guard her, for she is your life.
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