Verse 19

Because of this, the LORD said,“You must repent of such words and thoughts! If you do, I will restore you to the privilege of serving me. If you say what is worthwhile instead of what is worthless, I will again allow you to be my spokesman. They must become as you have been. You must not become like them.

Referenced Verses

  • Zech 3:7 : 7 “The LORD of Heaven’s Armies says,‘If you follow my ways and keep my requirements, you will be able to preside over my temple and attend to my courtyards, and I will allow you to come and go among these others who are standing by you.
  • Lev 10:10 : 10 as well as to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,
  • Jer 15:1 : 1 Then the LORD said to me,“Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for these people, I would not feel pity for them! Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!
  • Ezek 22:26 : 26 Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst.
  • Ezek 44:23 : 23 Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean.
  • Exod 4:12 : 12 So now go, and I will be with your mouth and will teach you what you must say.”
  • Exod 4:15-16 : 15 “So you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And as for me, I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you both what you must do. 16 He will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were his God.
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 Am I now trying to gain the approval of people, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ!
  • Heb 5:14 : 14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.
  • Jude 1:24 : 24 Final Blessing Now to the one who is able to keep you from falling, and to cause you to stand, rejoicing, without blemish before his glorious presence,
  • Gal 2:5 : 5 But we did not surrender to them even for a moment, in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
  • Exod 6:29-30 : 29 he said to him,“I am the LORD. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am telling you.” 30 But Moses said before the LORD,“Since I speak with difficulty, why should Pharaoh listen to me?”
  • Jonah 3:2 : 2 “Go immediately to Nineveh, that large city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.”
  • Jer 15:10-18 : 10 Jeremiah Complains about His Lot and The Lord Responds I said,“Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.” 11 The LORD said,“Jerusalem, I will surely send you away for your own good. I will surely bring the enemy upon you in a time of trouble and distress. 12 Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north? 13 I will give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder. I will give it away free of charge for the sins you have committed throughout your land. 14 I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you know nothing about. For my anger is like a fire that will burn against you.” 15 I said,“LORD, you know how I suffer. Take thought of me and care for me. Pay back for me those who have been persecuting me. Do not be so patient with them that you allow them to kill me. Be mindful of how I have put up with their insults for your sake. 16 As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies. 17 I did not spend my time in the company of other people, laughing and having a good time. I stayed to myself because I felt obligated to you and because I was filled with anger at what they had done. 18 Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?”
  • Jer 20:9 : 9 Sometimes I think,“I will make no mention of his message. I will not speak as his messenger any more.” But then his message becomes like a fire locked up inside of me, burning in my heart and soul. I grow weary of trying to hold it in; I cannot contain it.
  • Jer 38:20-21 : 20 Then Jeremiah answered,“You will not be handed over to them. Please obey the LORD by doing what I have been telling you. Then all will go well with you and your life will be spared. 21 But if you refuse to surrender, the LORD has shown me a vision of what will happen. Here is what I saw:
  • Ezek 2:7 : 7 You must speak my words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.
  • Ezek 3:10-11 : 10 And he said to me,“Son of man, take all my words that I speak to you to heart and listen carefully. 11 Go to the exiles, to your fellow countrymen, and speak to them– say to them,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says,’ whether they pay attention or not.”
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah Visits a Widow in Sidonian Territory Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab,“As certainly as the LORD God of Israel lives(whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.”
  • Prov 22:29 : 29 You have seen a person skilled in his work– he will take his position before kings; he will not take his position before obscure people.
  • Isa 32:5-6 : 5 A fool will no longer be called honorable; a deceiver will no longer be called principled. 6 For a fool speaks disgraceful things; his mind plans out sinful deeds. He commits godless deeds and says misleading things about the LORD; he gives the hungry nothing to satisfy their appetite and gives the thirsty nothing to drink.
  • Luke 1:19 : 19 The angel answered him,“I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.
  • Luke 10:16 : 16 “The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
  • Luke 12:12 : 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that moment what you must say.”
  • Luke 21:15 : 15 For I will give you the words along with the wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
  • Luke 21:36 : 36 But stay alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that must happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
  • Acts 20:27 : 27 For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.