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Jer 29:23 — Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and [am] a witness, saith the LORD.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

and have		Jer 7:9,10; Jer 23:14,21; Psa 50:16-18; Zep 3:4; 2Pe 2:10-19; Jud 1:8-11
lying		Jer 29:8,9,21
even I		Jer 13:27; Jer 16:17; Jer 23:23,24; Pro 5:21; Mal 2:14; Mal 3:5; Hbr 4:13; Rev 1:5; Rev 3:14

Correlating Passages

and have

	Jer 7:9	Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
	Jer 7:10	And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
	Jer 23:14	I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
	Jer 23:21	I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
	Psa 50:16	But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
	Psa 50:17	Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
	Psa 50:18	When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
	Zep 3:4	Her prophets [are] light [and] treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
	2Pe 2:10	But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous [are they], selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
	2Pe 2:11	Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
	2Pe 2:12	But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
	2Pe 2:13	And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, [as] they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots [they are] and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
	2Pe 2:14	Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
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	Jud 1:8	Likewise also these [filthy] dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
	Jud 1:9	Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
	Jud 1:10	But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
	Jud 1:11	Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

lying

	Jer 29:8	For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that [be] in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
	Jer 29:9	For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the LORD.
	Jer 29:21	Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;

even I

	Jer 13:27	I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, [and] thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when [shall it] once [be]?
	Jer 16:17	For mine eyes [are] upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
	Jer 23:23	[Am] I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?
	Jer 23:24	Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
	Pro 5:21	For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
	Mal 2:14	Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet [is] she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
	Mal 3:5	And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
	Hbr 4:13	Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
	Rev 1:5	And from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, [and] the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
	Rev 3:14	And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 29:23," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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