Jeremiah 23:36

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Summary

And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

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The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.

The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

To give them the punishment which is in the holy writings: this honour is given to all his saints. Praise be to the Lord.

Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

And I say to you that in the day when they are judged, men will have to give an account of every foolish word they have said.

He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;

These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.

To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.

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For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken, and taken in the net.

Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.

Because every man is responsible for his part of the work.

And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls.

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But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

For what man is there in all the earth, who, hearing the voice of the living God as we have, out of the heart of the fire, has been kept from death?

And David said to the men near him, What will be done to the man who overcomes this Philistine and takes away the shame from Israel? for who is this Philistine, a man without circumcision, that he has put shame on the armies of the living God?

It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so then make your prayer for the rest of the people.

Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:

For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,