Jeremiah 17:9-10

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings." - Jeremiah 17:9-10
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What does Jeremiah 17:9-10 mean?

The Bible verse Jeremiah 17:9-10 from the King James Version (KJV) reads: "9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the…

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Jeremiah 17:9-10 - "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve."
Jeremiah 17:9 - "¶ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
Jeremiah 10:17 - "¶ Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress."
Jeremiah 17:9 (KJVA) 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jeremiah 17:9 (KJVA) 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jeremiah 9:17 - "¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:"
"¶ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" - Jeremiah 17:9
Jeremiah 17:10 - "I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings."
"¶ Gather up thy wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress." - Jeremiah 10:17
Jeremiah 10:9 - "Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men."
Jeremiah 17:17 - "Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil."
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Jeremiah 9:10 - "For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone."
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"¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:" - Jeremiah 9:17
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Romans 10:17
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