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 to me, The backsliding Israel hath 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 heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Hosea 4:16
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
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
Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
Proverbs 4:13
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Isaiah 30:10
Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Isaiah 44:20
He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
1 Thessalonians 5:21
Prove 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 ye have already hold fast till I come.
They refuse
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, are not thy eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast 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 ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to hearken, and withdrew the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
John 5:40
And ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.
Hebrews 12:25
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: