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

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but with falsehood, says Jehovah.

I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

As soon as they hear of Me, they shall obey Me; the sons of strangers shall bow down to Me.

Things of iniquity are mightier than I; as for our transgressions, You shall purge them away.

Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put the stumbling-block of their iniquity before their face. Should I at all be inquired of by them?

And they come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words. But they will not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their unjust gain.

Then the Pharisees left and took counsel that they might entangle Him in words.

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that he also will reap.

Dissembled in your hearts

The fire-pans of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them into broad plates, a covering for the altar; for they offered them before Jehovah, therefore they are made holy. And they shall be a sign to the sons of Israel.

But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.