Jeremiah 7:3-5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will let you dwell in this place. ⁴Do not trust in these deceptive words: ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’^[a]

⁵“For if you truly amend your ways and your doings, if you truly execute justice one with another,

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7.4 Trust in the temple’s presence without true service of God and observance of his commands is vain, just as earlier a similar trust in the presence of the ark was fruitless without moral observance; 1 Sam 4.3.

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