Jeremiah 6:16

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Jeremiah 6:16

This is what the Lord says:

Stand by the roadways and look.
Ask about the ancient paths:
Which is the way to what is good?
Then take it
and find rest for yourselves.
But they protested, “We won’t!”

Jeremiah 18:15

Yet My people have forgotten Me.
They burn incense to false idols
that make them stumble in their ways
on the ancient roads
and walk on new paths, not the highway.

Isaiah 8:20

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

Malachi 4:4

“Remember the instruction of Moses My servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

Luke 16:29

“But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’

Isaiah 28:12

He had said to them:
“This is the place of rest,
let the weary rest;
this is the place of repose.”
But they would not listen.

Jeremiah 7:23

However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.

Deuteronomy 32:7

Remember the days of old;
consider the years long past.
Ask your father, and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will teach you.

Song of Songs 1:7-8

Tell me, you, the one I love:
Where do you pasture your sheep?
Where do you let them rest at noon?
Why should I be like one who veils herself
beside the flocks of your companions?

Isaiah 2:5

House of Jacob,
come and let us walk in the Lord’s light.

Isaiah 30:21

and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Jeremiah 2:25

Keep your feet from going bare
and your throat from thirst.
But you say, “It’s hopeless;
I love strangers,
and I will continue to follow them.”

Jeremiah 18:12

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless. We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

Jeremiah 22:21

I spoke to you when you were secure.
You said, “I will not listen.”
This has been your way since youth;
indeed, you have never listened to Me.

Jeremiah 44:16

“As for the word you spoke to us in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to listen to you!

Matthew 11:28-29

“Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 21:28-32

“But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘My son, go, work in the vineyard today.’

John 5:39

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me.

John 5:46-47

For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.

John 12:35

Jesus answered, “The light will be with you only a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that darkness doesn’t overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going.

John 13:17

If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

Acts 17:11

The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Romans 4:1-6

What then can we say that Abraham, our physical ancestor, has found?

Romans 4:12

And he became the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith our father Abraham had while he was still uncircumcised.

Colossians 2:6

Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in Him,

Hebrews 6:12

so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.

Hebrews 11:2-1

For our ancestors won God’s approval by it.

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Summary

Jeremiah 6:16

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

Stand

And walk

We will

Matthew 21:28

General references

Bible References

Stand

Yet My people have forgotten Me.
They burn incense to false idols
that make them stumble in their ways
on the ancient roads
and walk on new paths, not the highway.

Remember the days of old;
consider the years long past.
Ask your father, and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will teach you.

Tell me, you, the one I love:
Where do you pasture your sheep?
Where do you let them rest at noon?
Why should I be like one who veils herself

beside the flocks of your companions?

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

“Remember the instruction of Moses My servant, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

“But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they should listen to them.’

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me.

The people here were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica, since they welcomed the message with eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

What then can we say that Abraham, our physical ancestor,

has found?

so that you won’t become lazy but will be imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and perseverance.

For our ancestors won God’s approval by it.

Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,

And walk

However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.

House of Jacob,
come and let us walk in the Lord’s light.

and whenever you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

Therefore, as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in Him,

We will

Keep your feet from going bare
and your throat from thirst.
But you say, “It’s hopeless;
I love strangers,
and I will continue to follow them.”

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless. We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

I spoke to you when you were secure.
You said, “I will not listen.”
This has been your way since youth;
indeed, you have never listened to Me.

“As for the word you spoke to us in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to listen to you!

“But what do you think? A man had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘My son, go, work in the vineyard today.’

General references

Make Your ways known to me, Lord;
teach me Your paths.

Then you will understand righteousness, justice,
and integrity—every good path.

that the Lord your God may tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”

And no one, after drinking old wine, wants new, because he says, ‘The old is better.’”