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Jeremiah 7:10

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

Translated by Verse Made Simple Editorial
KJV ORIGINAL
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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✦ MADE SIMPLE

And then you come and stand before me in this temple that bears my name, saying, 'We are safe to keep doing all these terrible things'?

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

God is confronting people who think they can sin freely just because they worship at the temple, as if going to church gives them permission to live however they want.

📚 Historical Context

Jeremiah was speaking to the people of Judah who believed that simply going to Solomon's temple in Jerusalem would protect them from God's judgment, even while they continued practicing idolatry, injustice, and other sins. They treated the temple like a lucky charm rather than a place of genuine worship and repentance.

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Translation & Methodology Sources

The original manuscript text provided is based on the King James Version (KJV), which is in the public domain. Our modern English simplifications are generated via proprietary philological synthesis, cross-referenced against Strong's Exhaustive Concordance and the Textus Receptus to ensure unwavering theological and etymological precision.

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