Jeremiah 12:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ For even your kinsfolk and your own family, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; do not believe them, though they speak friendly words to you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For even your brethren and the house of your father–even they have dealt treacherously with you; yes, even they are [like a pack of hounds] in full cry after you. Believe them not, though they speak fair words and promise good things to you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; even they have cried aloud after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

Common English Bible

⁶ Even your relatives, your very family, are planning to trap you. They are out to get you. So don’t trust them, even if they appear to be on your side.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even these have fought against you. And they have cried out after you with loud voice: 'You should not believe them, when they speak good things to you.' "

Jeremiah 12:6 Cross References

Proverbs 26:25

when an enemy speaks graciously, do not believe it, for there are seven abominations concealed within;

Jeremiah 9:4

Beware of your neighbors, and put no trust in any of your kin, for all your kin are supplanters, and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.

Psalm 12:2

They utter lies to each other; with flattering lips and a deceitful heart they speak.

Matthew 10:21

Sibling will betray sibling to death and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,

Jeremiah 11:21

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the people of Anathoth who seek your life and say, “You shall not prophesy in the name of the Lord, or you will die by our hand”—

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter. And I did not know it was against me that they devised schemes, saying, “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered!”

Acts 18:12

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal.

Jeremiah 20:10

For I hear many whispering: “Terror is all around! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” All my close friends are watching for me to stumble. “Perhaps he can be enticed, and we can prevail against him and take our revenge on him.”

Psalm 69:8

I have become a stranger to my kindred, an alien to my mother’s children.

Job 6:15

My companions are treacherous like a torrent bed, like swollen streams that pass away,

John 7:5

(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

Mark 12:12

When they realized that he had told this parable against them, they wanted to arrest him, but they feared the crowd. So they left him and went away.

Isaiah 31:4

For thus the Lord said to me, “As a lion or a young lion growls over its prey and, when a band of shepherds is called out against it, is not terrified by their shouting or daunted at their noise, so the Lord of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill.

Acts 16:22

The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

Jeremiah 9:2

O that I had in the desert a traveler’s lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

Jeremiah 9:5

They all deceive their neighbors, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongues to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.

Psalm 12:3

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that makes great boasts,

Proverbs 23:8

You will vomit up the little you have eaten, and you will waste your pleasant words.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongues like bows; they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth, for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.