Jeremiah 6:16

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Summary

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

But my people have forgotten me; they make offerings to false gods; they made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient roads, and to walk into side roads, not the highway,

Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?

To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

"Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.'

You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh?

so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

For by it the people of old received their commendation.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

And walk

But this command I gave them: 'Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.'

O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD.

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

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

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,

We will

Keep your feet from going unshod and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is hopeless, for I have loved foreigners, and after them I will go.'

"But they say, 'That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'

I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, 'I will not listen.' This has been your way from your youth, that you have not obeyed my voice.

"As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you.

"What do you think? A man had two sons. And he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.'

General references

Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.

Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;

that the LORD your God may show us the way we should go, and the thing that we should do."

And no one after drinking old wine desires new, for he says, 'The old is good.'"