Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although
You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from
and they saw some of His disciples eating with hands that were defiled—that is, unwashed.
“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” de
For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake t
Do not add to His words, lest He rebuke you and prove you a liar.
Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.
“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah,
Jeremiah the prophet and said, “May our petition come before you; pray to the LORD your God on behalf of this entire rem
For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, an
Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name
A prayer of David. Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer—it comes from lips free of d
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and