Jeremiah 12:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ For even your brothers and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; they are in full cry after you; believe them not, though they speak fair 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.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ For even thy brethren and the house of thy father, even they have fought against thee, and have cried after thee with full voice. Believe them not when they speak good things to thee.

Jeremiah 12:6 Cross References

Job 6:15

My brethren are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as freshets that pass away,

Psalm 12:2

Every one utters lies to his neighbor; with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

Psalm 12:3

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

Psalm 69:8

I have become a stranger to my brethren, an alien to my mother's sons.

Proverbs 23:8

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

Proverbs 26:25

when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart;

Isaiah 31:4

For thus the Lord said to me, As a lion or a young lion growls over his prey, and when a band of shepherds is called forth against him 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.

Jeremiah 11:19

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

Jeremiah 11:21

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

Jeremiah 20:10

For I hear many whispering. Terror is on every side! “Denounce him! Let us denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, watching for my fall. “Perhaps he will be deceived, then we can overcome him, and take our revenge on him.”

Jeremiah 9:2

O that I had in the desert a wayfarers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:4

Let every one beware of his neighbor, and put no trust in any brother; for every brother is a supplanter, and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

Jeremiah 9:5

Every one deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.

Matthew 10:21

Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death;

Mark 12:12

And they tried to arrest him, but feared the multitude, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them; so they left him and went away.

John 7:5

For even his brothers did not believe in him.

Acts 16:22

The crowd joined in attacking them; and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them with rods.

Acts 18:12

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