Jeremiah 16:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

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  • Jer 15:17 : 17 I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.
  • Eccl 7:2-4 : 2 It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts. 3 Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better. 4 The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.
  • Isa 22:12-14 : 12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief: 13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes. 14 And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
  • Amos 6:4-6 : 4 Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house; 5 Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6 Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.
  • Matt 24:38 : 38 Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,
  • Luke 17:27-29 : 27 They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction. 28 In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building; 29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.
  • 1 Cor 5:11 : 11 But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.
  • Eph 5:11 : 11 And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
  • Ps 26:4 : 4 I have not taken my seat with foolish persons, and I do not go with false men.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 16:5-7
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    5 For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.

    6 Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:

    7 No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.

  • Jer 16:9
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    9 For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.

  • Prov 23:20
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    20 Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:

  • Isa 24:8-9
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    8 The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

    9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.

  • Luke 14:8
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    8 When you get a request to come to a feast, do not take the best seat, for a more important man than you may be coming,

  • Zech 7:6
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    6 And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?

  • 1 Kgs 13:16-17
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    16 But he said, I may not go back with you or go into your house; and I will not take food or a drink of water with you in this place;

    17 For the Lord said to me, You are not to take food or water there, or go back again by the way you came.

  • Jer 16:1-2
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    1 Then again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2 You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.

  • Eccl 7:2
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    2 It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.

  • Lev 10:9
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    9 Take no wine, or strong drink, you or your sons with you, when you go into the Tent of meeting, that it may not be the cause of death to you; this is an order for ever through all your generations.

  • Mic 6:15
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    15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

  • Isa 22:13
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    13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

  • Jer 35:7
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    7 And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

  • Jer 25:27-28
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    27 And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.

    28 And it will be, if they will not take of the cup in your hand, then you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies has said: You will certainly take of it.

  • Deut 28:30
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    30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Amos 6:7
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    7 So now they will go away prisoners with the first of those who are made prisoners, and the loud cry of those who were stretched out will come to an end.

  • Hos 9:4-5
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    4 They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.

    5 What will you do on the day of worship, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

  • Eccl 9:7
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    7 Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.

  • Isa 5:11-12
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    11 Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!

    12 And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.

  • Eccl 8:15
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    15 So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

  • 1 Kgs 13:22
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    22 But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.

  • Deut 8:12
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    12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

  • 1 Kgs 13:8
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    8 But the man of God said to the king, Even if you gave me half of all you have, I would not go in with you, and I would not take food or a drink of water in this place;

  • Hab 2:15
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    15 A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!

  • Exod 34:15
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    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

  • Ezek 44:21
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    21 The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.

  • 1 Cor 10:7
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    7 Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

  • Deut 12:25
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    25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Hos 9:2
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    2 The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.

  • Jer 25:10
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    10 And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.

  • Exod 12:46
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    46 It is to be taken in one house; not a bit of the flesh is to be taken out of the house, and no bone of it may be broken.

  • Deut 16:14
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    14 You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.

  • Ezek 24:17
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    17 Let there be no sound of sorrow; make no weeping for your dead, put on your head-dress and your shoes on your feet, let not your lips be covered, and do not take the food of those in grief.

  • Isa 28:8
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    8 For all the tables are covered with coughed-up food, so that there is not a clean place.

  • Mic 2:10
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    10 Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.

  • Luke 10:7
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    7 And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.

  • Eccl 10:17
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    17 Happy is the land whose ruler is of noble birth, and whose chiefs take food at the right time, for strength and not for feasting.

  • Isa 16:10
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    10 And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.

  • Ezek 24:22
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    22 And you will do as I have done, not covering your lips or taking the food of those in grief.

  • Rom 14:21
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    21 It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.

  • Amos 5:5
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    5 Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.

  • Ezek 16:16
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    16 And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.