Quotes About Truth

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Because you may say, “The LORD has raised up for us prophets in Babylon,”

This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you lies in My name: “I will deliver them to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will kill them before your very eyes.

For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”

You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that

So now, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who poses as a prophet among you?

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

“Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,

this is what the LORD says: ëI will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.í”

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.

Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.

Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

When Micaiah son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the LORD from the scroll,

And Micaiah reported to them all the words he had heard Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people.

When they had heard all these words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, “Surely we must report all these words to the king.”

“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiahís dictation?”

And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribeís knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.

Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

“Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.

You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ëWhy have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?í