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 is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
• 2 Pet 3:16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
• Jer 10:10But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.
• Ps 64:8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
• Ps 120:3What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
• 2 Kgs 19:4It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
• Isa 28:22Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
• Luke 19:22And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
• Acts 14:15And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
• Gal 6:5For every man shall bear his own burden.
• Gal 1:7–9Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
• 1 Th 1:9For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
• Ps 12:3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
• Ps 149:9To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
• Matt 12:36But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
• 2 Pet 2:17–18These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
• Jude 1:15–16To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
• Deut 5:26For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
• 1 Sam 17:26And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
• 1 Sam 17:36Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.
• Prov 17:20He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
• Isa 28:13–14But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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