Jeremiah 9:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

They bend

Valiant

For they

Jeremiah 7:26

2 Timothy 3:13

They know

General references

Acts 24:9

Bible References

They bend

Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

Valiant

Then have no fear; you are of more value than a flock of sparrows.

Whoever has a feeling of shame because of me and my words in this false and evil generation, the Son of man will have a feeling of shame because of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.

Having no fear of those who are against you; which is a clear sign of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

My loved ones, while my thoughts were full of a letter which I was going to send you about our common salvation, it was necessary for me to send you one requesting you with all my heart to go on fighting strongly for the faith which has been given to the saints once and for ever.

And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.

For they

But still they took no note and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff, doing worse than their fathers.

Evil and false men will become worse and worse, using deceit and themselves overcome by deceit.

They know

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.

And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.

And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.

Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.

Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God.

And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.

And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.

General references

And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back.

So Delilah said to Samson, Make clear to me now what is the secret of your great strength, and how you may be put in bands and made feeble.

One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.

Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.

And the Jews were in agreement with his statement, saying that these things were so.