Jeremiah 13:23
But there is little hope for you ever doing good, you who are so accustomed to doing evil. Can an Ethiopian change the color of his skin? Can a leopard remove its spots?
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- Jer 9:5 : 5 One friend deceives another and no one tells the truth. These people have trained themselves to tell lies. They do wrong and are unable to repent.
- Matt 19:24-28 : 24 Again I say, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God.” 25 The disciples were greatly astonished when they heard this and said,“Then who can be saved?” 26 Jesus looked at them and replied,“This is impossible for mere humans, but for God all things are possible.” 27 Then Peter said to him,“Look, we have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?” 28 Jesus said to them,“I tell you the truth: In the age when all things are renewed, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
- Jer 2:22 : 22 You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see,” says the Sovereign LORD.
- Jer 2:30 : 30 “It did no good for me to punish your people. They did not respond to such correction. You slaughtered your prophets like a voracious lion.”
- Jer 17:9 : 9 The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?
- Prov 27:22 : 22 If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.
- Isa 1:5 : 5 Why do you insist on being battered? Why do you continue to rebel? Your head has a massive wound, your whole heart is sick.
- Jer 5:3 : 3 LORD, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.
- Jer 6:29-30 : 29 The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged. 30 They are regarded as‘rejected silver’ because the LORD rejects them.”
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18Come, let’s consider your options,” says the LORD.“Though your sins have stained you like the color red, you can become white like snow; though they are as easy to see as the color scarlet, you can become white like wool.
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5Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?
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6So like a lion from the thicket their enemies will kill them. Like a wolf from the rift valley they will destroy them. Like a leopard they will lie in wait outside their cities and totally destroy anyone who ventures out. For they have rebelled so much and done so many unfaithful things.
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20The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.