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 thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
• Deut 32:7Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
• Jer 18:15Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
• Matt 11:28–29Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
• Jer 7:23But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
• Col 2:6As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
• Isa 2:5O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
• John 12:35Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
• Jer 18:12And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.
• Jer 22:21I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
• Heb 11:2For by it the elders obtained a good report.
• Jer 44:16As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
• Mal 4:4Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
• John 13:17If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
• Heb 6:12That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
• Luke 16:29Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
• John 5:39Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
• Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
• Isa 28:12To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
• Rom 4:1–6What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
• Matt 21:28–32But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.
• Acts 17:11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
• Song 1:7–8Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
• John 5:46–47For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
• Rom 4:12And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
• Jer 2:25Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

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