Jeremiah 9:6

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Summary

Jeremiah 9:6

Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

Habitation

Refuse

1 Corinthians 15:34

General references

Exodus 16:28

Habakkuk 1:3

Acts 24:9

Bible References

Habitation

But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,'saying , Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him,'say all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

Deliver my soul, O Jehovah, from lying lips, And from a deceitful tongue.

Refuse

This evil people, that refuse to hear my words, that walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing.

And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.

General references

And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.

And the Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that these things were so.