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

Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

For by it the elders obtained a good report.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

And walk

But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

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

And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:

We will

Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.

But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.

General references

Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

That the LORD thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.