Jeremiah 24:5 Cross References - Thomson

⁵ Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel, Like these good figs so will I acknowledge for good those banished Jews whom I have sent from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.

¹⁶ who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thou didst not know, and which was not known by thy fathers, that he might afflict thee, and try thee, and do thee good in thy latter days.

¹² Happy the man, whom thou, O Lord wilt instruct; and whom thou wilt teach out of thy law; ¹³ in order to set him at ease from evil days; until a pit be dug for the sinner. ¹⁴ For the Lord will not cast off his people; nor will he forsake his inheritance;

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted, I transgressed; for this cause I have kept thy word.

⁷¹ It is good for me that thou hast humbled me: that I might learn thy rules of rectitude.

⁷ [b] The Lord is kind to them who wait for him in a day of distress: and he knoweth them who reverence him.

⁹ And when I have passed this third part through fire, and tried them as silver is tried, and proved them as gold is proved; this people will invoke My name and I will hear them and say, this is my people, and they will say, the Lord is my God.

¹² But he in reply, said, Verily I say to you, I do not know you.

²⁷ My sheep, as I told you, hearken to my voice and I know them, and they follow me:

²⁸ And we know that all things are working together for good to them who love God"to them who according to a previous purpose are now actually called.

³ But if any one loveth God by him he is acknowledged.]

⁹ but now when you know God, or rather when God hath owned you, how turn ye again to those weak and beggarly elements to which you degradingly desire again to be in bondage as before.

¹⁹ Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth firm, having this inscription""The Lord knoweth them who are his;" and "Let every one who nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity."

⁵ And have you forgotten this exhortation which speaketh to us as to children, "My son slight not the correction of the Lord, Nor faint when reproved by him; ⁶ For whom the Lord loveth he reproveth, And chastiseth every son whom he receiveth. ⁷ If you endure correction God dealeth with you as sons. For what son is there whom a father doth not correct? ⁸ Now if you are without correction, of which all are partakers, you are indeed bastards and not sons. ⁹ Well then: we have had fathers of our flesh who have corrected us, and we have reverenced them; shall we not much more submit ourselves to the father of our spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days corrected us as they thought fit; but he for our advantage, that we may partake of his holiness.

¹⁹ Whomsoever I love, I rebuke and chastise. Be zealous therefore, and reform.