Jeremiah 12:6

God's Word

Even your relatives and members of your father’s household betray you. They have also formed a mob to find you. Don’t trust them when they say good things about you.

Cross References

Job 6:15

My brothers have been as deceptive as seasonal rivers, like the seasonal riverbeds that flood.

Psalm 12:2

All people speak foolishly. They speak with flattering lips. They say one thing but mean another.

Psalm 12:3

May the Lord cut off every flattering lip and every bragging tongue

Psalm 69:8

I have become a stranger to my ⌞own⌟ brothers, a foreigner to my mother’s sons.

Proverbs 23:8

You will vomit the little bit you have eaten and spoil your pleasant conversation.

Proverbs 26:25

When he talks charmingly, do not trust him because of the seven disgusting things in his heart.

Isaiah 31:4

This is what the Lord said to me: A lion, even a young lion, growls over its prey when a crowd of shepherds is called to fight it. It isn’t frightened by their voices or disturbed by the noise they make. So the Lord of Armies will come to fight for Mount Zion and its hill.

Jeremiah 11:19

I was like a trusting lamb brought to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they were plotting against me. They were saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit. Let’s cut Jeremiah off from this world of the living so that we won’t be reminded of him anymore.”

Jeremiah 11:21

This is what the Lord says: The people of Anathoth want to kill you. They say, “Don’t prophesy in the name of the Lord, or we’ll kill you.”

Jeremiah 20:10

I have heard many ⌞people⌟ whispering, “Terror is everywhere! Report him! Let’s report him!” All my closest friends are waiting to see me stumble. They say, “Maybe he will be tricked. Then we can overpower him and take revenge on him.”

Jeremiah 9:2

I wish I had a place to stay in the desert. I would abandon my people and go away from them. They are all adulterers, a mob of traitors.

Jeremiah 9:3

They use their tongues like bows that shoot arrows. Lies and dishonesty rule the land. They go from one evil thing to another, and they don’t know me,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:4

“Beware of your neighbors. Don’t trust your relatives. Every relative cheats. Every neighbor goes around slandering.

Jeremiah 9:5

Everyone cheats his neighbor. No one speaks the truth. My people train their tongues to speak lies. They wear themselves out doing wrong.

Matthew 10:21

“Brother will hand over brother to death; a father will hand over his child. Children will rebel against their parents and kill them.

Mark 12:12

They wanted to arrest him but were afraid of the crowd. They knew that he had directed this illustration at them. So they left him alone and went away.

John 7:5

Even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

Acts 16:22

The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas. Then the officials tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered ⌞the guards⌟ to beat them with sticks.

Acts 18:12

While Gallio was governor of Greece, the Jews had one thought in mind. They attacked Paul and brought him to court.