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Jeremiah 7:6

if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

Jeremiah 7:6 BSB

Jeremiah 7:6 has 30 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Exodus 22:21–24 (7 votes) and Deuteronomy 8:19 (6 votes). 60 other verses point back to it. It links with 22 other books, from Exodus 22 to James 3.

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Which verses does Jeremiah 7:6 point to?

The 20 strongest of 30, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt. You must not mistreat any widow or orphan. …

  2. If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

  3. These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.

  4. “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Administer true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’ …

  5. but a curse if you disobey the commandments of the LORD your God and turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods, which you have not known.

  6. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you. For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face of the earth.

  7. Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things

  8. Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.

  9. ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

  10. Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; save them from the hand of the wicked.

  11. James 1:273 votes
  12. They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

Which verses point to Jeremiah 7:6?

The 10 strongest of 60.