Jeremiah 8:5
"Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return."
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- Jeremiah 9:6
"Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD."
Read in chapter → - Zechariah 7:11
"But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 5:3
"O LORD, are not thine 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."
Read in chapter → - Hebrews 12:25
"See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:"
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - John 5:40
"And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life."
Read in chapter → - 2 Thessalonians 2:9
"Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,"
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 30:10
"Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:"
Read in chapter → - 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?"
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 5:27
"As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich."
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