Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 7:7
A church father on this verse
“Then he infers, "If you make your ways straight and if your thoughts do not follow error, and if you will do justice and refrain from evil, nor shed innocent blood or scandalize the little ones. If you do not walk after alien gods, honoring perverse doctrines that you simulate in your own hearts for evil purposes. I w…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old and forever.
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5For if ye thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;
6and oppress not the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and go not after strange gods to your hurt:
— Jeremiah 7:7 —
8But whereas ye have trusted in lying words, whereby ye shall not be profited;
9and ye murder, and commit adultery, and steal, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and are gone after strange gods whom ye know not,