Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

Cross References (28)

  • 1 Corinthians 14:20 (17)

    Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

  • Romans 16:19 (14)

    Everyone has heard about your obedience, so I rejoice over you. But I want you to be wise about what is good and innocen

  • Jeremiah 5:21 (13)

    “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

  • Romans 3:11 (12)

    There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.

  • Hosea 4:6 (12)

    My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests

  • Romans 1:22 (11)

    Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,

  • Hosea 5:4 (10)

    Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know

  • Micah 2:1 (9)

    Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is

  • John 16:3 (9)

    They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

  • Romans 1:28 (8)

    Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to

  • Isaiah 6:9–10 (8)

    And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceivin

  • Deuteronomy 32:28 (8)

    Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.

  • Jeremiah 13:23 (7)

    Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Neither are you able to do good—you who are accustomed to d

  • Isaiah 27:11 (7)

    When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understa

  • Isaiah 1:3 (6)

    The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

  • Jeremiah 10:8 (6)

    But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

  • 1 Corinthians 1:20–21 (5)

    Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of

  • Psalms 14:1–4 (5)

    For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. The

  • Jeremiah 5:4 (5)

    Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice o

  • Isaiah 42:19–20 (5)

    Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind li

  • 2 Samuel 16:21–23 (3)

    Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to take care of the palace. When all Israel h

  • Deuteronomy 32:6 (3)

    Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you a

  • Jeremiah 8:7–9 (3)

    Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migr

  • Isaiah 29:10–12 (3)

    For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads,

  • Luke 16:8 (3)

    The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are more shrewd in de

  • Matthew 23:16–26 (3)

    Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold o

  • Hosea 4:1 (3)

    Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no tr

  • 2 Samuel 13:3 (2)

    Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,