Jeremiah 6:16

God calls His people to seek the ancient good way and walk in it to find rest, but they refuse. Rest for the soul is found in the tested paths of God's revealed truth, not in novelty.

Cross-references · 26

• Isa 30:21And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
• Deut 32:7Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
• Jer 18:15Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
• Matt 11:28–29Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
• Jer 7:23but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
• Col 2:6Therefore, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in Him,
• Isa 2:5Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.
• John 12:35Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
• Jer 18:12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
• Jer 22:21I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
• Heb 11:2This is why the ancients were commended.
• Jer 44:16“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
• Mal 4:4“Remember the law of My servant Moses, the statutes and ordinances I commanded him for all Israel at Horeb.
• John 13:17If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
• Heb 6:12Then you will not be sluggish, but will imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.
• Luke 16:29But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let your brothers listen to them.’
• John 5:39You pore over the Scriptures because you presume that by them you possess eternal life. These are the very words that testify about Me,
• Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
• Isa 28:12to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.
• Rom 4:1–6What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, has discovered?
• Matt 21:28–32But what do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first one and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
• Acts 17:11Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.
• Song 1:7–8Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
• John 5:46–47If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.
• Rom 4:12And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
• Jer 2:25You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’

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