Jeremiah 20:9

If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.

Cross References (14)

  • Psalms 39:3 (37)

    My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:

  • Job 32:18–20 (30)

    For I am full of words, and my spirit within me compels me.

  • Acts 4:20 (19)

    For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

  • 1 Corinthians 9:16–17 (15)

    Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach

  • Ezekiel 3:14 (13)

    So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness and in the anger of my spirit, with the strong han

  • Acts 17:16 (13)

    While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.

  • Jeremiah 6:11 (9)

    But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the

  • 2 Corinthians 5:13–15 (7)

    If we are out of our mind, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

  • John 1:2–3 (3)

    He was with God in the beginning.

  • Luke 9:62 (3)

    Then Jesus declared, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and then looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

  • John 4:2–3 (2)

    (although it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples),

  • 1 Kings 19:3–4 (1)

    And Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,

  • Acts 18:5 (1)

    And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself fully to the word, testifying to the Jews that

  • Acts 15:37–38 (-1)

    Barnabas wanted to take John, also called Mark.