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Jer 3:1 — They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

They say		Heb. Saying
If a man		Deu 24:1-4
shall not that		Jer 3:9; Jer 2:7; Lev 18:24-28; Isa 24:5; Mic 2:10
but thou hast		Jer 2:20,23; Deu 22:21; Jdg 19:2; Eze 16:26,28,29; Eze 23:4-49; Hsa 1:2; Hsa 2:5-7
yet return		Jer 3:12-14,22; Jer 4:1,14; Jer 8:4-6; Deu 4:29-31; Isa 55:6-9; Eze 33:11; Hsa 14:1-4; Zec 1:3; Luk 15:16-24

Correlating Passages

If a man

	Deu 24:1	When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.
	Deu 24:2	And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife].
	Deu 24:3	And [if] the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth [it] in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her [to be] his wife;
	Deu 24:4	Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that [is] abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.

shall not that

	Jer 3:9	And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
	Jer 2:7	And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
	Lev 18:24	Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
	Lev 18:25	And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
	Lev 18:26	Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
	Lev 18:27	(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)
	Lev 18:28	That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that [were] before you.
	Isa 24:5	The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
	Mic 2:10	Arise ye, and depart; for this [is] not [your] rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy [you], even with a sore destruction.

but thou hast

	Jer 2:20	For of old time I have broken thy yoke, [and] burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
	Jer 2:23	How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
	Deu 22:21	Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
	Jdg 19:2	And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.
	Eze 16:26	Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
	Eze 16:28	Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.
	Eze 16:29	Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.
	Eze 23:4	And the names of them [were] Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus [were] their names; Samaria [is] Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
	Eze 23:5	And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbours,
	Eze 23:6	[Which were] clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
	Eze 23:7	Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them [that were] the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.
	Eze 23:8	Neither left she her whoredoms [brought] from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
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	Hsa 1:2	The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, [departing] from the LORD.
	Hsa 2:5	For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
	Hsa 2:6	Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
	Hsa 2:7	And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find [them]: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then [was it] better with me than now.

yet return

	Jer 3:12	Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; [and] I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I [am] merciful, saith the LORD, [and] I will not keep [anger] for ever.
	Jer 3:13	Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
	Jer 3:14	Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
	Jer 3:22	Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.
	Jer 4:1	If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
	Jer 4:14	O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
	Jer 8:4	Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return?
	Jer 8:5	Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
	Jer 8:6	I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
	Deu 4:29	But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
	Deu 4:30	When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, [even] in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
	Deu 4:31	(For the LORD thy God [is] a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
	Isa 55:6	Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
	Isa 55:7	Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
	Isa 55:8	For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
	Isa 55:9	For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
	Eze 33:11	Say unto them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
	Hsa 14:1	O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
	Hsa 14:2	Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive [us] graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.
	Hsa 14:3	Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
	Hsa 14:4	I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
	Zec 1:3	Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
	Luk 15:16	And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
	Luk 15:17	And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
	Luk 15:18	I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
	Luk 15:19	And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
	Luk 15:20	And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
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