Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
They hold
They refuse
Bible References
Slidden
Jeremiah 2:32
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Jeremiah 3:11
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
Jeremiah 7:24
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil hearts, and went backward, and not forward.
Hosea 4:16
For Israel slides back like a stubborn heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in an open pasture.
Hosea 11:7
And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.
They hold
Jeremiah 9:6
Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.
Proverbs 4:13
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.
Isaiah 30:10
Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Isaiah 44:20
He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Test all things; hold fast that which is good.
2 Thessalonians 2:9
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
Revelation 2:25
But that which you have already hold fast till I come.
They refuse
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? you have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Isaiah 1:20
But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to hearken, and shrugged the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
John 5:40
And you will not come to me, that you might have life.
Hebrews 12:25
See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven: