Jeremiah 2:35

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And thou sayest, `Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, `I have not sinned.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 28:13 : 13 Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.
  • Isa 58:3 : 3 `Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact.
  • Jer 2:9 : 9 Therefore, yet I plead with you, An affirmation of Jehovah, And with your sons' sons I plead.
  • Jer 2:23 : 23 How sayest thou, `I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,
  • Jer 2:29 : 29 Why do ye strive with Me? All of you have transgressed against Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Jer 25:31 : 31 Wasting hath come unto the end of the earth, For a controversy hath Jehovah with nations, He hath executed judgment for all flesh, The wicked! He hath given them to the sword, An affirmation of Jehovah.
  • Rom 7:9 : 9 And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;
  • 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us; 9 if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness; 10 if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.
  • Job 33:9 : 9 `Pure `am' I, without transgression, Innocent `am' I, and I have no iniquity.

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