Jeremiah 42:20

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Summary

For ye dissembled in your hearts, when ye sent me unto the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us unto the LORD our God; and according unto all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.

For ye

Dissembled in your hearts

Numbers 16:38

James 1:22

Bible References

For ye

But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.

I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

From the time when my name comes to their ears they will be ruled by me: men of other countries will, with false hearts, put themselves under my authority.

Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?

And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.

Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.

Dissembled in your hearts

And let the vessels of those men, who with their lives have made payment for their sin, be hammered out into plates as a cover for the altar; for they have been offered before the Lord and are holy; so that they may be a sign to the children of Israel.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.