Jeremiah 6:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.

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  • Jer 9:4 : 4 Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.
  • Jer 5:23 : 23 But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.
  • Jer 18:18 : 18 Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.
  • Jer 20:10 : 10 For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.
  • Ezek 22:18-22 : 18 Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste. 19 For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have all become waste metal, see, I will get you together inside Jerusalem. 20 As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft. 21 Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it. 22 As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you.
  • Rev 11:18 : 18 And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.
  • Rev 19:2 : 2 For true and upright are his decisions; for by him has the evil woman been judged, who made the earth unclean with the sins of her body; and he has given her punishment for the blood of his servants.
  • Jer 6:30 : 30 They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.
  • Ps 50:20 : 20 You say evil of your brother; you make false statements against your mother's son.
  • Isa 1:4-5 : 4 O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him. 5 Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.
  • Isa 31:6 : 6 Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.

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  • Jer 6:29-30
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    29The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.

    30They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.

  • Hos 5:2
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    2They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.

  • Ezek 22:18
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    18Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.

    9Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

  • Deut 32:5
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    5They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Hos 7:3-4
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    3In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

    4They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.

  • Jer 9:5-6
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    5Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

    6There is wrong on wrong, deceit on deceit; they have given up the knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Rom 3:12-14
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    12They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

    13Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

    14Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

  • Ps 14:3
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    3They have all gone out of the way together; they are unclean, there is not one who does good, no, not one.

  • Jer 5:23
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    23But the heart of this people is uncontrolled and turned away from me; they are broken loose and gone.

  • Mic 6:11-12
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    11Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?

    12For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

    10Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • Jer 6:13
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    13For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    17Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

    18They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • Isa 30:9
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    9For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:

  • Prov 2:14-15
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    14Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

    15Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

  • Jer 10:14-15
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    14Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

    15They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • Isa 1:22
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    22Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

  • Rom 1:29-30
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    29Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

    30Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,

  • Isa 59:13
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    13We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

  • Hos 7:7
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    7They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.

  • Neh 9:26
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    26But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

  • Isa 1:4
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    4O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.

  • Ps 53:3
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    3Every one of them has gone back; they are unclean: there is not one who does good, no, not one.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

  • Ps 135:18
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    18Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

  • Ps 115:8
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    8Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

  • Isa 57:4
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    4Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

  • Isa 59:4
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    4No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

  • Hos 6:7
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    7But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

  • Ps 62:3
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    3How long will you go on designing evil against a man? running against him as against a broken wall, which is on the point of falling?

  • Isa 59:7
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    7Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.