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 when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
• Deut 32:7Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.
• Jer 18:15For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;
• Matt 11:28–29“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
• Jer 7:23but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
• Col 2:6As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,
• Isa 2:5House of Jacob, come, and let us walk in the light of Yahweh.
• John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
• Jer 18:12But they say, ‘It is in vain; for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do everyone after the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
• Jer 22:21I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.
• Heb 11:2For by this, the elders obtained testimony.
• Jer 44:16“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.
• Mal 4:4“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
• John 13:17If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
• Heb 6:12that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.
• Luke 16:29“But Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’
• John 5:39“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
• Isa 8:20Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
• Isa 28:12to whom he said, “This is the resting place. Give rest to weary”; and “This is the refreshing”; yet they would not hear.
• Rom 4:1–6What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?
• Matt 21:28–32But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’
• Acts 17:11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
• Song 1:7–8Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
• John 5:46–47For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
• Rom 4:12He is the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had in uncircumcision.
• Jer 2:25“Keep your feet from being bare, and your throat from thirst. But you said, ‘It is in vain. No, for I have loved strangers, and I will go after them.’

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