Jeremiah 13:23

Bishops' Bible (1568)

May a man of Inde chaunge his skinne, and the cat of the mountayne her spottes? so, may ye that be exercised in euyll, do good?

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  • Jer 9:5 : 5 Yea, one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no trueth: They haue practised their tongues to lye, and taken great paynes to do mischiefe.
  • Matt 19:24-28 : 24 And agayne I say vnto you: it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a nedle, then for the riche, to enter into the kyngdome of God. 25 When the disciples hearde this, they were exceadyngly amazed, saying: who then can be saued? 26 But Iesus behelde them, and sayde vnto them: with men this is vnpossible, but with God all thynges are possible. 27 Then aunswered Peter, and sayde vnto hym: Beholde, we haue forsaken all, and folowed thee, what shall we haue therfore? 28 Iesus sayde vnto them: veryly I say vnto you, that when the sonne of man shall syt in the throne of his maiestie, ye that haue folowed me in the regeneration, shall syt also vpon twelue seates, and iudge the twelue tribes of Israel.
  • Jer 2:22 : 22 Yea and that so sore that though thou washe thee with Nitrus, and make thy selfe to sauour with that sweete smellyng hearbe of Borith: yet in my sight thou art stayned with thy wickednesse, saith the Lorde thy God.
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 It is but lost labour that I smite your children, for they receaue not my correction: your owne sworde destroyeth your prophetes, lyke a deuouryng lion.
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 Among all thynges, man hath the most deceiptfull and stubburne heart: Who shall then knowe it?
  • Prov 27:22 : 22 Though thou shouldest bray a foole with a pestel in a morter like furmentie corne: yet wyll not his foolishnes go from hym.
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why shoulde ye be stricken any more? for ye are euer fallyng away: euery head is diseased, and euery heart heauy:
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 Wheras thou (O Lorde) lokest only vpon faith and trueth: Thou hast scourged them, but they toke no repentaunce, thou hast corrected them for amendement, but they refused thy correction, they made their faces harder then a stone, and woulde not amende.
  • Jer 6:29-30 : 29 The bellowes are brent in the fire, the leade is not moulten, the melter melteth in vayne, for the euill is not taken away from them. 30 Therefore do they call them naughtie siluer, because the Lorde hath cast them out.

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  • Jer 13:22
    73%

    22And if thou wouldest then say in thine heart, Wherfore come these thinges vpon me? Euen for the multitude of thy blasphemies shall thy hynder partes and thy feete be discouered.

  • Jer 13:24
    71%

    24Therfore wyll I scatter them like as the stubble that is taken away with the south wynde.

  • Isa 1:16-19
    4 verses
    71%

    16Washe you, make you cleane, put away your euyll thoughtes out of my syght: ceasse from doyng of euyll,

    17Learne to do well, applie your selues to equitie, deliuer the oppressed, helpe the fatherlesse to his ryght, let the widdowes complaynt come before you:

    18And then go to, saith the Lorde, let vs talke together: though your sinnes be as red as scarlet, they shalbe as whyte as snowe: and though they were lyke purple, they shalbe as whyte as wooll.

    19If ye be wyllyng and obedient, ye shal eate the good of the lande:

  • Jer 2:22-23
    2 verses
    68%

    22Yea and that so sore that though thou washe thee with Nitrus, and make thy selfe to sauour with that sweete smellyng hearbe of Borith: yet in my sight thou art stayned with thy wickednesse, saith the Lorde thy God.

    23Howe sayest thou nowe, I am not vncleane, and I haue not folowed Baalim? Loke vpon thine owne wayes in the valleys what thou hast done? Thou art like a swift dromedarie that goeth easyly her way.

  • Mic 3:2
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    2But they hate the good, and loue the euill, they plucke of their skinnes from them, and their fleshe from their bones.

  • Jer 2:36
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    36Why gaddest thou so much hither and thither, to chaunge thy wayes? for thou shalt be confounded aswell of Egypt as thou wast of the Assyrians.

  • Hab 1:13
    67%

    13Thou art of pure eyes, and canst not see euyl, thou canst not behold wickednesse: wherfore then doest thou loke vpo the transgressours, and holdest thy tongue, when the wicked deuoureth the man that is more righteous then he?

  • Isa 3:9
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    9Their very countenaunce bewrayeth the, yea they declare their owne sinnes themselues as Sodome, they hide it not: Wo be to their owne soules, for they haue rewarded euyll vnto them selues.

  • Job 14:4
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    4Who can make it cleane that commeth of an vncleane thing? no bodye.

  • Jer 18:11
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    11Speake nowe therfore vnto whole Iuda, and to them that dwell at Hierusalem, thus saith the Lorde, Beholde I am deuisyng a plague for you, and am takyng a thyng in hande agaynst you: therfore let euery man turne from his euyll way, and take vpon you the thyng that is good and ryght.

  • Ezek 36:31
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    31Then shall ye remember your owne wicked wayes, and your imaginations which were not good: so that ye shalbe irksum in your owne eyes for your sinnes and abhominations.

  • Lam 4:8
    66%

    8But nowe their faces be very blacke, insomuche that thou shouldest not knowe them in the streetes: their skinne cleaueth to their bones, it is withered and become like a drye stocke.

  • Ezek 22:14
    66%

    14Is thy heart able to endure? or may thy handes be strenghthened in the dayes that I shal haue to do with thee? Euen I the Lorde that speake it, wyll bryng it also to passe.

  • Jer 3:5
    66%

    5Wyll God continue his wrath for euer? wyll he kepe our faultes in memorie to the ende? Neuerthelesse, thou speakest such wordes, but thou art euer doyng worse and worse to the vtmost of thy power.

  • Ezek 18:24
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    24Agayne, if the righteous turne from his righteousnesse, and do iniquitie, and shall do according to all the abominations that the wicked man doth: shall he liue? All the righteousnesse that he hath done shall not be remembred, but in his transgression that he hath committed, in his sinne that he hath sinned, in them he shall dye.

  • Jer 26:13
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    13Therfore amende your wayes, and your aduisementes, and be obedient vnto the voyce of the Lorde your God, so shall the Lorde repent of the plague that he hath deuised agaynst you.

  • Ezek 33:19
    65%

    19But if the wicked turne from his wickednes, doing the thing that is lawfull and right, he shall lyue therefore.

  • Prov 17:13
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    13Who so rewardeth euill for good, euil shall not depart from his house.

  • Lev 26:23
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    23And if ye may not be refourmed by these thynges, but shall walke contrary vnto me:

  • Isa 1:5-6
    2 verses
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    5Why shoulde ye be stricken any more? for ye are euer fallyng away: euery head is diseased, and euery heart heauy:

    6From the sole of the foote vnto the head there is nothyng sounde in it: but woundes, blaynes, and putrifiyng sore: they haue not ben salued, neither wrapped vp, neither molified with the oyntment.

  • Prov 1:16
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    16For their feete runne to euyll, and are hasty to shed blood.

  • 1 Sam 24:13
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    13According as the olde prouerbe sayeth, wickednesse proceedeth fro the wicked: But myne hande be not vpon thee.

  • Jer 39:16
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    16Go and tell Abedmelech the Morian, thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel: Beholde, the cruell and sharpe plague that I haue deuised for this citie wyll I bring vpon them, that thou shalt see it:

  • Rom 2:3
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    3Thinkest thou this, O thou man that iudgest them whiche do such thynges, and doest the same thy selfe that thou shalt escape the iudgement of God?

  • Job 11:14-15
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    65%

    14If thou wouldest put away the wickednes whiche thou hast in hande, so that no vngodlinesse dwell in thy house:

    15Then mightest thou lift vp thy face without shame, & then shouldest thou be sure and haue no neede to feare.

  • Jer 4:18
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    18Thy wayes and thy thoughtes haue brought thee vnto this, such is thine owne wickednesse and disobedience: and because it is a bitter thyng, it hath stricken thee to the heart.

  • Jer 4:14
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    14O Hierusalem, washe thine heart from wickednesse, that thou mayest be helped: Howe long shall thy vayne thoughtes remayne with thee?

  • Jer 11:15
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    15What part hath my beloued in my house, seing he hath worked abhomination, seruing many gods? The holy fleshe offeringes in the temple are gone from thee O Iuda and thou when thou hast done euyll, makest thy boast of it.

  • Matt 12:33-34
    2 verses
    65%

    33Either make the tree good, and his fruite good: or els make the tree euyll, and his fruite euyll. For the tree, is knowen by his fruite.

    34O generation of vipers, howe can ye speake good thynges, when ye your selues are euyll? For out of the aboundauce of the heart, the mouth speaketh.

  • Ezek 18:31
    65%

    31Cast away from you all your transgressions wherby ye haue transgressed, and make you a newe heart and a newe spirite: for why wyll ye dye O ye house of Israel?

  • Isa 31:2
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    2And he neuerthelesse is wise, and will plague the wicked, and goeth not from his worde, he wyll aryse against the housholde of the frowarde, and against the helpe of euyll doers.

  • Isa 59:3
    64%

    3For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with vnrighteousnesse: your lippes speake leasinges, and your tongue setteth out wickednesse.

  • Job 22:5
    64%

    5Is not thy wickednesse great, and thy vngratious deedes innumerable?

  • Mark 7:23
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    23All these euyll thynges come fro within, and defyle a man.

  • Jer 26:3
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    3(If peraduenture they wyll hearken and turne euery man from his wicked way, that I may also repent of the plague which I haue determined to bryng vpon them, because of their wicked inuentions.)

  • Ezek 18:26
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    26When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousnesse, and committeth iniquitie, and dieth in the same: in his iniquitie whiche he hath committed shall he dye.

  • Ezek 20:43
    64%

    43There shall ye call to rembraunce your owne wayes, and all your workes wherin ye haue ben defiled, and ye shalbe cut of in your owne sight for all your wickednesse that ye haue done.

  • Jer 2:33
    64%

    33Why beautifiest thou thy wayes so hyely, to obteyne fauour therthrough? therfore also hast thou taught wickednesse through thy wayes.

  • Lev 13:48
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    48Whether it be in the warpe or woofe of lynnen or of woollen, either in a skin, or any thyng made of skynne:

  • Prov 28:13
    64%

    13He that hydeth his sinnes, shall not prosper: but whoso knowledgeth them and forsaketh them, shall haue mercy.

  • Mal 3:6
    64%

    6For I am the Lorde, I chaunge not: and you sonnes of Iacob are not consumed.

  • Jer 5:6
    64%

    6Wherfore a lion out of the wood hath hurt them, and a woolfe in the euenyng shall destroy them, the Leoparde doth lye lurkyng by their cities, to teare in peeces all them that come therout: for their offences are multiplied, and their departyng away is encreased.

  • Deut 19:20
    64%

    20And other shall heare, and feare, and shall hencefoorth commit no more any such wickednesse among you.