King James Version (KJV)
Jeremiah 7:8
“Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 7
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[If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
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Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
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Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
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Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
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And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
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