Jeremiah 9:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Everyone has to be on guard against his friend. Don’t trust any brother, for every brother will certainly deceive, and every friend spread slander.

Cross References

Jeremiah 6:28

All are stubborn rebels, spreading slander. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.

Matthew 10:21

‘Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise up against parents and have them put to death.

Leviticus 19:16

Do not go about spreading slander  among your people; do not jeopardise  your neighbour’s life; I am the Lord.

Jeremiah 12:6

Even your brothers #– #your own father’s family – even they were treacherous to you; even they have cried out loudly after you. Do not have confidence in them, though they speak well of you.

Proverbs 25:18

A person giving false testimony against his neighbour is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

Proverbs 10:18

The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

Genesis 32:28

‘Your name will no longer be Jacob,’  he said. ‘It will be Israel  because you have struggled with God  and with men and have prevailed.’

1 Thessalonians 4:6

This means one must not transgress against and take advantage  of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offences, as we also previously told and warned you.

Luke 21:16

You will even be betrayed by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends.   They will kill some of you.

Matthew 10:17

Beware of them, because they will hand you over to local courts   and flog you in their synagogues.

Ezekiel 22:9

There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood.  People who live in you eat at the mountain shrines;  they commit depraved acts within you.

Proverbs 6:19

a lying witness who gives false testimony, and one who stirs up trouble among brothers.

Proverbs 6:16

The Lord hates six things; in fact, seven are detestable to him:

Isaiah 59:13

transgression and deception against the  Lord, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongues are deadly arrows – they speak deception. With his mouth one speaks peaceably with his friend, but inwardly he sets up an ambush.

Malachi 2:10

Don’t all of us have one Father?  Didn’t one God create us?  Why then do we act treacherously against one another,  profaning  the covenant of our ancestors?

Proverbs 4:16

For they can’t sleep unless they have done what is evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.

Proverbs 4:17

They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Isaiah 9:16

The leaders of the people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.