Jeremiah 13:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then you may also do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

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  • Jer 9:5 : 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
  • Matt 19:24-28 : 24 And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. 25 When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? 26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. 27 Then Peter answered and said to him, Behold, we have left all and followed you. What shall we have therefore? 28 And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man sits on the throne of his glory, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • Jer 2:22 : 22 For though you wash yourself with lye, and take much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord GOD.
  • Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
  • Prov 27:22 : 22 Though you pound a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
  • Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
  • Jer 6:29-30 : 29 The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; the refiner melts in vain, for the wicked are not removed. 30 Rejected silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.

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    22And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come upon me? For the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered, and your heels made bare.

  • Jer 13:24
    71%

    24Therefore I will scatter them as the stubble that passes away by the wind of the wilderness.

  • Isa 1:16-19
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    71%

    16Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

    17Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

    18Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

    19If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:

  • Jer 2:22-23
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    68%

    22For though you wash yourself with lye, and take much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord GOD.

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  • Mic 3:2
    67%

    2Who hate good and love evil; who strip their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

  • Jer 2:36
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    36Why do you go about so much to change your way? you also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

  • Hab 1:13
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    13You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he?

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Job 14:4
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    4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

  • Jer 18:11
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    11Now therefore go, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a plan against you: return now everyone from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

  • Ezek 36:31
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    31Then you shall remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

  • Lam 4:8
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    8Their appearance is blacker than coal; they are not recognized in the streets; their skin clings to their bones; it has withered, it has become like a stick.

  • Ezek 22:14
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    14Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.

  • Jer 3:5
    66%

    5Will he hold onto his anger forever? Will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done evil things as you could.

  • Ezek 18:24
    65%

    24But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.

  • Jer 26:13
    65%

    13Therefore now amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will relent of the evil that he has pronounced against you.

  • Ezek 33:19
    65%

    19But if the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live because of it.

  • Prov 17:13
    65%

    13Whoever rewards evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

  • Lev 26:23
    65%

    23And if you will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary to me;

  • Isa 1:5-6
    2 verses
    65%

    5Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

    6From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with ointment.

  • Prov 1:16
    65%

    16For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

  • 1 Sam 24:13
    65%

    13As says the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness comes from the wicked: but my hand shall not be upon you.

  • Jer 39:16
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    16Go and speak to Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for harm and not for good; and they shall be accomplished that day before you.

  • Rom 2:3
    65%

    3And do you think this, O man, who judges those who do such things, and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?

  • Job 11:14-15
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    14If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and do not let wickedness dwell in your tents.

    15For then you shall lift up your face without blemish; yes, you shall be steadfast and shall not fear:

  • Jer 4:18
    65%

    18Your way and your deeds have procured these things for you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.

  • Jer 4:14
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    14O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?

  • Jer 11:15
    65%

    15What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? When you do evil, then you rejoice.

  • Matt 12:33-34
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    65%

    33Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.

    34O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

  • Ezek 18:31
    65%

    31Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel?

  • Isa 31:2
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    2Yet He also is wise, and will bring disaster, and will not call back His words: but will rise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of those who practice iniquity.

  • Isa 59:3
    64%

    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

  • Job 22:5
    64%

    5Is not your wickedness great, and your iniquities infinite?

  • Mark 7:23
    64%

    23All these evil things come from within and defile a man.

  • Jer 26:3
    64%

    3Perhaps they will listen and each man will turn from his evil way, that I may relent of the evil I plan to do to them because of the evil of their deeds.

  • Ezek 18:26
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    26When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and dies in them; for his iniquity that he has done he shall die.

  • Ezek 20:43
    64%

    43And there you shall remember your ways, and all your doings, in which you have been defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

  • Jer 2:33
    64%

    33Why do you beautify your way to seek love? therefore you have also taught the wicked ones your ways.

  • Lev 13:48
    64%

    48whether it is in the warp or woof, of linen or wool, whether in skin or in anything made of skin,

  • Prov 28:13
    64%

    13He who covers his sins shall not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

  • Mal 3:6
    64%

    6For I am the LORD, I do not change; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed.

  • Jer 5:6
    64%

    6Therefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: everyone that goes out from there shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings have increased.

  • Deut 19:20
    64%

    20And those who remain shall hear and fear, and shall no longer commit any such evil among you.