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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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

acknowledge		Jer 3:25; Jer 31:18-20; Lev 26:40-42; Deu 30:1-3; Job 33:27,28; Pro 28:13; Luk 15:18-21; 1Jo 1:8-10
and hast scattered		Jer 3:2,6; Jer 2:20,25; Eze 16:15,24,25
under every		Deu 12:2

Correlating Passages

acknowledge

	Jer 3:25	We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
	Jer 31:18	I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.
	Jer 31:19	Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
	Jer 31:20	[Is] Ephraim my dear son? [is he] a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.
	Lev 26:40	If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
	Lev 26:41	And [that] I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
	Lev 26:42	Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.
	Deu 30:1	And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call [them] to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
	Deu 30:2	And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
	Deu 30:3	That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
	Job 33:27	He looketh upon men, and [if any] say, I have sinned, and perverted [that which was] right, and it profited me not;
	Job 33:28	He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
	Pro 28:13	He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall have mercy.
	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.
	Luk 15:21	And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
	1Jo 1:8	If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
	1Jo 1:9	If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
	1Jo 1:10	If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

and hast scattered

	Jer 3:2	Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
	Jer 3:6	The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen [that] which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
	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 2:25	Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
	Eze 16:15	But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
	Eze 16:24	[That] thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street.
	Eze 16:25	Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

under every

Deu 12:2

Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 3:13," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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