Jeremiah 6:16 Cross References - Coverdale

¹⁶ Thus saieth the LORDE: go into the stretes, considre and make inquisicion for the olde waye: and yf it be the good and right waye, then go therin, that ye maye fynde rest for youre soules. (But they saye: we will not walke therin)

⁷ Remembre the dayes that are past, considre the yeares of the generacions afore tyme. Axe thy father, he shall shewe the: thine elders, they shal tell the.

⁷ Tell me (o thou whom my soule loueth) where thou fedest, where thou restest at the noone daye: lest I go wronge, and come vnto the flockes of thy companyons, ⁸ Yf thou knowe not yi self (o thou fayrest amoge women) tha go yi waye forth after ye fotesteppes of the shepe, as though thou woldest fede yi goates besyde ye shepherdes tentes.

⁵ It is to the that I crie (o house of Iacob) vp, let us walke in the light of the LORDE.

²⁰ Yf eny man want light, let him loke vpon the lawe and the testimony, whether they speake not after this meanynge.

¹² This shal bringe rest, yf one refresh the weery, ye this shal bringe rest. But they had no will to heare.

²¹ and thine eares harken to his worde, that crieth after the and saieth: This is the waye, go this, and turne nether to the right honde nor the leffte.

²⁵ Thou kepest thy fote from nakednes, and thy throte from thurste, and thinkest thus in thy self: tush, I wil take no sorowe, I wil loue the straunge goddes, & hange vpon them.

²³ but this I commaunded them, sayenge: herken and obeye my voyce, and I shalbe youre God and ye shal be my people: so that ye walke in all the wayes, which I haue comaunded you, that ye maye prospere.

¹² But they saye: No more of this, we will folowe oure owne ymaginacions, and do euery ma acordinge to the wilfulnesse of his owne mynde.

¹⁵ But my people hath so forgotten me, yt they haue made sacrifice vnto vayne goddes. And whyle they folowed their owne wayes they are come out of the hie strete, and gone in to a fote waye not vsed to be troden.

²¹ I gaue the warninge, whyle thou wast yet i prosperite, But thou saydest: I wil not heare. And this maner hast thou vsed from thy youth, that thou woldest neuer heare my voyce.

¹⁶ As for the wordes that thou hast spoken vnto vs in the name of the LORDE, we will in no wyse heare them:

⁴ Remembre the lawe of Moses my seruaunt, which I committed vnto him in Oreb for all Israel, with the statutes and ordinaunces.

²⁸ Come vnto me all ye that laboure and are laden, and I wil ease you. ²⁹ Take my yock vpon you, and lerne of me, for I am meke and lowlye of hert, & ye shal fynde rest vnto youre soules:

²⁸ But what thinke ye? A certayne man had two sonnes, and came to the first, and sayde: Go thy waye my sonne, & worke to daye in my vynyarde. ²⁹ He answered and sayde: I wil not, but afterwarde he repented, and wente. ³⁰ He came also vnto the secode, and sayde likewyse. And he answered and saide: I wil syr. And wete not. ³¹ Whether of them twayne dyd the wil of the father? They sayde vnto him: the first. Iesus sayde vnto the: Verely I saye vnto you: The publicans and harlottes shal come in to the kyngdome of God before you. ³² For Ihon came vnto you, and taught you ye right waye and ye beleued him not: but the publicans & harlottes beleued hi. As for you, though ye sawe it, yet were ye not moued with repetaunce, that ye might afterwarde haue beleued him.

²⁹ Abraham sayde vnto him: They haue Moses and the prophetes, let them heare them.

³⁹ Searche the scripture, for ye thinke ye haue euerlastinge life therin: and the same is it that testifyeth of me,

⁴⁶ Yf ye beleued Moses, ye shulde beleue me also: For he hath wrytte of me. ⁴⁷ But yf ye beleue not his wrytinges, how shal ye beleue my wordes?

³⁵ Then sayde Iesus vnto them: The light is yet a litle whyle with you, walke whyle ye haue the light, that the darknesse fall not vpo you. He that walketh in the darknesse, woteth not whither he goeth.

¹⁷ Yf ye knowe these thinges, blessed are ye yf ye do them.

¹¹ (for they were the Eldest amonge the at Thessalonica) which receaued the worde maruelous wyllingly, and searched the scriptures daylie, whether it were euen so.

¹ What shal we saye the, that Abraha or father as pertayninge to ye flesh dyd fynde? ² This we saye: Yf Abraham were made righteous thorow workes, then hath he wherin to reioyse, but not before God. ³ But what sayeth ye scripture? Abraha belened God, & yt was counted vnto him for righteousnes. ⁴ Vnto hi yt goeth aboute wt workes, is the rewarde not rekened of fauoure, but of dutye: ⁵ owbeit vnto him, yt goeth not aboute with workes, but beleueth on him yt iustifieth the vngodly, is his faith counted for righteousnes. ⁶ Euen as Dauid sayeth also, that blessednes is onely that mans, vnto who God counteth righteousnes without addinge to of workes, where he sayeth:

¹² & that he might be a father of circumcision, not onely of the that are of ye circumcision, but of them also that walke in the fotesteppes of the faith, which was in the vncircumcision of oure father Abraham.

⁶ As ye haue therfore receaued Christ Iesu the LORDE, euen so walke in him,

¹² that ye faynte not, but folowe them which thorow faith and paciece inheret the promyses.

² By it ye Elders were well reported of.