Jeremiah 13:23
Can an Ethiopian change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then you who are trained to do evil will also be able to do good.
Proverbs 27:22
Though you crush a fool in a mortar and pestle as someone might crush grain, his stupidity still won't leave him.
Isaiah 1:5
"Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? Your whole head is sick, and your whole heart is faint.
Jeremiah 2:22
Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me," declares the Lord GOD.
Jeremiah 9:5
People deceive their friends, and they don't tell the truth. They have taught their tongues to tell lies. They exhaust themselves practicing evil.
Matthew 19:24-28
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to get into the kingdom of God."
Jeremiah 2:30
"I've punished your children with no results, they have accepted no discipline. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destroying lion."
Jeremiah 5:3
LORD, don't your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they didn't flinch. You brought them to an end, but they refused to receive discipline. They made their faces harder than stone, and they refused to repent.
Jeremiah 6:29-30
The bellows blow fiercely to consume the lead with the fire. The assayer keeps on refining, but the impurities aren't separated out.
Jeremiah 17:9
"The heart is more deceitful than anything. It is incurable who can know it?