Jeremiah 23:29

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

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  • Jer 5:14 : 14 Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
  • 2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
  • Heb 4:12 : 12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
  • Rev 11:5 : 5 And if any man will hurt them, fi proceedeth out of their mouth, and devouth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
  • Luke 24:32 : 32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
  • John 6:63 : 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
  • Acts 2:3 : 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon eh of them.
  • Acts 2:37 : 37 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
  • 2 Cor 2:16 : 16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

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    13And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

    14Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

  • Isa 30:13-14
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    13Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.

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    22As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the LORD have poured out my fury upon you.

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    23How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

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    14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

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    11So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

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    20Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

  • Jer 20:8-9
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    8For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.

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    24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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    15Also the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

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    19Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.

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    9Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

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