But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
Parallel translations
- KJV But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
- BSB But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
- ESV But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
- NKJV “But like men they transgressed the covenant; There they dealt treacherously with Me.
- NASB But like Adam they have violated the covenant; There they have dealt treacherously with Me.
- NLT But like Adam, you broke my covenant and betrayed my trust.
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- Gen 3:11God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
- Hos 5:7They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.
- Hos 8:1“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.
- Job 31:33if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,
- Jer 9:6Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
- 2 Kgs 17:15They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.
- Gen 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
- Ezek 16:59–61“‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
- Jer 5:11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.
- Isa 24:5The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
- Jer 3:7I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
- Jer 31:32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.
- Isa 48:8Yes, you didn’t hear; yes, you didn’t know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
- Isa 24:16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
- Heb 8:9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they didn’t continue in my covenant, and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.
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