Jeremiah 8:8
How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.
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Jeremiah 8:8
How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.
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Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?
Hosea 8:12
Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.
Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.
Matthew 15:6
There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.
Malachi 2:7
For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.
Malachi 2:8
But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.
Malachi 2:9
And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
Deuteronomy 33:10
They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar.
Psalms 147:19
He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.
Hosea 4:6
Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.
Matthew 23:2
The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;
Mark 7:13
Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.
John 3:10
And Jesus, answering, said, Are you the teacher of Israel and have no knowledge of these things?
John 9:41
Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.
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Jeremiah 8:10
So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.
Jeremiah 8:11
And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 8:12
Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 6:12
And their houses will be handed over to others, their fields and their wives together: for my hand will be stretched out against the people of the land, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.
Jeremiah 6:14
And they have made little of the wounds of my people, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 6:15
Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets give false words and the priests give decisions by their direction; and my people are glad to have it so: and what will you do in the end?
Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
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Jeremiah 8:4
Further, you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Will those who are falling not be lifted up again? will he who has gone away not come back?
Jeremiah 8:5
Why do these people of Jerusalem go back, for ever turning away? they will not give up their deceit, they will not come back.
Jeremiah 8:6
I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.
Jeremiah 8:7
Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.
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Ezra 7:6
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a scribe, expert in the law of Moses which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given: and the king, moved by the Lord his God, gave him whatever he made request for.
2 Chronicles 34:13
Had authority over the transport workers, giving directions to all who were doing any sort of work; and among the Levites there were scribes and overseers and door-keepers.
2 Samuel 8:17
And Zadok and Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, were priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;
Nehemiah 8:1
And when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their towns. And all the people came together like one man into the wide place in front of the water-doorway; and they made a request to Ezra the scribe that he would put before them the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.
2 Chronicles 34:15
Then Hilkiah said to Shaphan the scribe, I have made discovery of the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.
Ezra 7:11
Now this is a copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra, the priest and the scribe, who put into writing the words of the orders of the Lord, and of his rules for Israel:
Nehemiah 8:4
And Ezra the scribe took his place on a tower of wood which they had made for the purpose; and by his side were placed Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on the right; and on the left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.
Nehemiah 8:9
And Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha, and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to the Lord your God; let there be no sorrow or weeping; for all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law.
Matthew 2:4
And he got together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, questioning them as to where the birth-place of the Christ would be.
Matthew 7:29
for he was teaching as one having authority, and not as their scribes.
Matthew 13:52
And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.
Matthew 26:3
Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.
Mark 8:31
And teaching them, he said that the Son of man would have to undergo much, and be hated by those in authority, and the chief priests, and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days come back from the dead.
Luke 20:19
And the chief priests and the scribes made attempts to get their hands on him in that very hour; and they were in fear of the people, for they saw that he had made up this story against them.
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Romans 2:17
But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,
Romans 2:18
And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,
Romans 2:19
In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,
Romans 2:20
A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true;
Romans 2:21
You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?
Romans 2:22
You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?
Romans 2:23
You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?
Romans 2:24
For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.
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Jeremiah 8:20
The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.
Jeremiah 8:21
For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.
Jeremiah 8:22
Is there no life-giving oil in Gilead? is there no expert in medical arts? why then have my people not been made well?
Jeremiah 9:1
If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
Genesis 37:25
Then seating themselves, they took their meal: and looking up, they saw a travelling band of Ishmaelites, coming from Gilead on their way to Egypt, with spices and perfumes on their camels.
Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, If it has to be so, then do this: take of the best fruits of the land in your vessels to give the man, perfumes and honey and spices and nuts:
Isaiah 1:6
The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.
Jeremiah 8:18
Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
Jeremiah 46:11
Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.
Jeremiah 51:8
Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.
Matthew 9:12
But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.
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Jeremiah 7:4
Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.
Isaiah 1:18
Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?
Isaiah 1:19
If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;
Isaiah 1:20
But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.
Jeremiah 7:34
And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Ezekiel 12:3
And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get ready the vessels of one who is taken away, and go away from your place to another place before their eyes: it may be that they will see, though they are an uncontrolled people.
Ezekiel 18:31
Put away all your evil-doing in which you have done sin; and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: why are you desiring death, O children of Israel?
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Isaiah 28:15
Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:
Isaiah 30:1
Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:
Isaiah 30:2
Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.
Jeremiah 9:23
This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:
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Romans 1:22
Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,
1 Corinthians 1:19
As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge.
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
1 Corinthians 1:21
For because, by the purpose of God, the world, with all its wisdom, had not the knowledge of God, it was God's pleasure, by so foolish a thing as preaching, to give salvation to those who had faith in him.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:
Proverbs 3:7
Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:
Proverbs 26:12
Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
Romans 11:25
For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.
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Psalms 119:126
It is time, O Lord, for you to let your work be seen; for they have made your law without effect.
Isaiah 8:20
Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ...If they do not say such things. ...For him there is no dawn. ...
Romans 3:31
Do we, then, through faith make the law of no effect? in no way: but we make it clear that the law is important.
Galatians 2:21
I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.
Deuteronomy 17:18
And when he has taken his place on the seat of his kingdom, he is to make in a book a copy of this law, from that which the priests, the Levites, have in their care:
Matthew 5:17
Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.
Matthew 5:20
For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.
Romans 4:14
For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;
2 Corinthians 6:1
We then, working together with God, make our request to you not to take the grace of God to no purpose.
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Jeremiah 8:13
I will put an end to them completely, says the Lord: there are no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry.
Jeremiah 8:14
Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.
Jeremiah 8:15
We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
Jeremiah 8:17
See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.
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Jeremiah 8:1
At that time, says the Lord, they will take the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem out of their resting-places:
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Jeremiah 8:2
And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.
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Jeremiah 9:18
Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.
Jeremiah 9:21
For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.
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Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.
Jeremiah 5:2
And though they say, By the living Lord; truly their oaths are false.
Matthew 15:14
Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.
Matthew 22:29
But Jesus said to them in answer, You are in error, not having knowledge of the Writings, or of the power of God.
Matthew 23:16
A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.
Matthew 23:17
You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?
Matthew 23:18
And, Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the offering which is on it, he is responsible.
Matthew 23:19
You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?
Matthew 23:20
He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.
Matthew 23:21
And he who takes an oath by the Temple, takes it by the Temple and by him whose house it is.
Matthew 23:22
And he who takes an oath by heaven, takes it by the seat of God, and by him who is seated on it.
Matthew 23:23
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
Matthew 23:24
You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.
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