Jeremiah 23:36

They must stop saying 'the burden of the LORD,' for each man's own word has become his 'burden,' perverting God's words. They have twisted the message of the living God.

Cross-references · 22

• Isa 3:8For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.
• 2 Pet 3:16He writes this way in all his letters, speaking in them about such matters. Some parts of his letters are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.
• Jer 10:10But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
• Ps 64:8They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
• Ps 120:3What will He do to you, and what will be added to you, O deceitful tongue?
• 2 Kgs 19:4Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
• Isa 28:22So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.
• Luke 19:22His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
• Acts 14:15“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.
• Gal 6:5For each one should carry his own load.
• Gal 1:7–9which is not even a gospel. Evidently some people are troubling you and trying to distort the gospel of Christ.
• 1 Th 1:9For they themselves report what kind of welcome you gave us, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
• Ps 12:3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
• Ps 149:9to execute the judgment written against them. This honor is for all His saints. Hallelujah!
• Matt 12:36But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.
• 2 Pet 2:17–18These men are springs without water and mists driven by a storm. Blackest darkness is reserved for them.
• Jude 1:15–16to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”
• Deut 5:26For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
• 1 Sam 17:26David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
• 1 Sam 17:36Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”
• Prov 17:20The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.
• Isa 28:13–14Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.

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