Jeremiah 4:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And you will take your oath, By the living Lord, in good faith and wisdom and righteousness; and the nations will make use of you as a blessing, and in you will they take a pride.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 65:16 : 16 So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.
  • Jer 9:24 : 24 But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.
  • 1 Cor 1:31 : 31 So that, as it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.
  • Gal 3:8 : 8 And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.
  • Gen 22:18 : 18 And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.
  • Deut 10:20 : 20 Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.
  • Isa 45:23 : 23 By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.
  • Isa 45:25 : 25 In the Lord will all the seed of Israel get their rights, and they will give glory to him.
  • 2 Cor 10:17 : 17 But whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.
  • Jer 12:16 : 16 And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.
  • Hos 2:19 : 19 And I will take you as my bride for ever; truly, I will take you as my bride in righteousness and in right judging, in love and in mercies.
  • Zech 8:8 : 8 And I will make them come and be living in Jerusalem and they will be to me a people and I will be to them a God, in good faith and in righteousness.
  • Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:
  • Isa 48:1-2 : 1 Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith. 2 For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.
  • Jer 5:2 : 2 And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
  • 1 Kgs 3:6 : 6 And Solomon said, Great was your mercy to David my father, as his life before you was true and upright and his heart was true to you; and you have kept for him this greatest mercy, a son to take his place this day.
  • Ps 72:17 : 17 May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.
  • Ps 99:4 : 4 The king's power is used for righteousness; you give true decisions, judging rightly in the land of Jacob.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 65:16
    76%

    16 So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.

  • Jer 4:1
    75%

    1 If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.

  • Jer 5:2
    74%

    2 And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.

  • Jer 12:16
    74%

    16 And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.

  • Mal 3:12
    73%

    12 And you will be named happy by all nations: for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of armies.

  • Hos 4:15
    73%

    15 Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.

  • Jer 31:23
    73%

    23 So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Again will these words be used in the land of Judah and in its towns, when I have let their fate be changed: May the blessing of the Lord be on you, O resting-place of righteousness, O holy mountain.

  • Isa 45:23-25
    3 verses
    73%

    23 By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.

    24 Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong: together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame and come to destruction.

    25 In the Lord will all the seed of Israel get their rights, and they will give glory to him.

  • Deut 28:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8 The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

    9 The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.

  • Isa 48:1
    72%

    1 Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.

  • Deut 6:18
    72%

    18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Jer 30:4
    71%

    4 And these are the words which the Lord said about Israel and about Judah.

  • Zech 8:16
    71%

    16 These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.

  • Jer 23:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6 In his days Judah will have salvation and Israel will be living without fear: and this is the name by which he will be named, The Lord is our righteousness.

    7 And so, truly, the days are coming when they will say no longer, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt;

    8 But, By the living Lord, who took up the seed of Israel, and made them come out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had sent them; and they will be living in the land which is theirs.

  • 2 Chr 15:14
    71%

    14 And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.

  • Mic 7:20
    71%

    20 You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.

  • Hos 4:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.

    2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Ps 7:8
    71%

    8 The Lord will be judge of the peoples; give a decision for me, O Lord, because of my righteousness, and let my virtue have its reward.

  • Ezek 18:9
    71%

    9 And has been guided by my rules and has kept my laws and done them: he is upright, life will certainly be his, says the Lord.

  • Ps 33:12
    71%

    12 Happy is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has taken for his heritage.

  • Deut 16:20
    71%

    20 Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 26:19
    71%

    19 And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your God as he has said.

  • Mal 1:5
    71%

    5 And your eyes will see it; and you will say, The Lord is great even outside the limits of Israel.

  • Deut 4:8
    70%

    8 And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?

  • Jer 4:3
    70%

    3 For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.

  • Amos 5:4
    70%

    4 For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:

  • Deut 29:12
    70%

    12 With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:

  • Deut 28:1
    70%

    1 Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth:

  • Ps 67:4
    70%

    4 O let the nations be glad, and make song of joy; for you will be the judge of the peoples in righteousness, guiding the nations of the earth. (Selah.)

  • Deut 6:13
    70%

    13 Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.

  • Jer 7:5
    70%

    5 For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;

  • Ps 128:5
    70%

    5 May the Lord send you blessing out of Zion: may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

  • Deut 30:1
    70%

    1 Now when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have put before you, if the thought of them comes back to your minds, when you are living among the nations where the Lord your God has sent you,

  • Ps 96:13
    70%

    13 Before the Lord, for he is come; he is come to be the judge of the earth; the earth will be judged in righteousness, and the peoples with unchanging faith.

  • Deut 7:12
    70%

    12 And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers.

  • Jer 22:4
    70%

    4 For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people

  • Num 14:21
    69%

    21 But truly, as I am living, and as all the earth will be full of the glory of the Lord;

  • Jer 11:6
    69%

    6 And the Lord said to me, Give out these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Give ear to the words of this agreement and do them.

  • Jer 33:9
    69%

    9 And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.

  • Ps 15:4
    69%

    4 Who gives honour to those who have the fear of the Lord, turning away from him who has not the Lord's approval. He who takes an oath against himself, and makes no change.

  • Jer 16:15
    69%

    15 But, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of the north, and from all the countries where he had sent them: and I will take them back again to their land which I gave to their fathers.

  • Jer 44:26
    69%

    26 And now give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt: Truly, I have taken an oath by my great name, says the Lord, that my name is no longer to be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, By the life of the Lord God.

  • Isa 55:5
    69%

    5 See, you will send for a nation of which you had no knowledge, and those who had no knowledge of you will come running to you, because of the Lord your God, and because of the Holy One of Israel, for he has given you glory.

  • Jer 33:15
    69%

    15 In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.