Jeremiah 5:23

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“But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.”

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BSBPD

“But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And this people hath an apostate and rebellious heart, They have turned aside, and they go on.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 5:23 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 21:18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
  2. Deuteronomy 31:27For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
  3. Psalms 95:10For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
  4. Isaiah 1:5Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.
  5. Isaiah 31:6Return to the One against whom you have so blatantly rebelled, O children of Israel.
  6. Jeremiah 5:5I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.
  7. Jeremiah 6:28All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
  8. Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
  9. Hosea 4:8They feed on the sins of My people and set their hearts on iniquity.
  10. Hosea 11:7My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.
  11. Hebrews 3:12See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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